261009 – Thorium 229 Clocks

The Nucleus Starts Keeping Time Oct 9, 2026 · @Thomas Lee Abshier, ND What happened On 7 October 2026, Nature published two papers describing the first clocks that keep time by the rhythm of an atomic nucleus rather than the electrons around it. One came from Thorsten...

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...

An Alpha Pattern Discovery

Eight Nuclei in a Row The story of SS-7: how a formula written for the smallest atomic nuclei turned out, almost by accident, to predict the weights of nuclei a hundred times larger — and how the first thing that seemed wrong about the result, when it was finally...