The most powerful line of experimental evidence supporting the RATE conclusion that billions of years of accelerated nuclear decay occurred during extremely brief episodes in the earth’s past involved the careful measurement of the helium diffusion rate in zircon crystals extracted from drill core from granitic basement rock in northern New Mexico. Because the implications of this finding are so profound, there is obvious motivation to confirm it for other rock formations. Additional zircon crystals have been isolated from different rock samples and are ready to have the helium diffusion rates measured in this project.
Lead Researcher: Dr. John Baumgardner