260907 – Evidence for an Old Earth

The Evidence for an Old Earth The young-earth model’s claims are wanting. This essay is the positive case, strongest lines of evidence that the earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the universe about 13.8 billion, in the form a scientist would give them:...

The Octahedron in Magnesium The story of SS-8: how a formula written for the strict-N=Z alpha-chain turned out to hide a deeper combinatorial structure, how a Platonic solid two-and-a-half thousand years old appeared inside a magnesium nucleus, and how the same...