Robert gentry s work showed that the earth s granite was never in a molten condition because polonium halos survive only in solid rock and the half life of polonium is much too short to survive a multimillion year cooling time.
Polonium halos in granite robert gentry.
In the book robert gentry describes the results of his studies of samples of granite from all over the world.
The originator of the polonium halo theory as evidence for a young earth is the physicist robert v.
He has spent the major part of his scientific career investigating traces of polonium radioactivity inscribed in granite and is arguably the world s leading authority on polonium halos his research has resulted in authoring or co authoring over twenty research papers in scientific.
His results seem to indicate that the earth was created instantaneously in a cool condition.
It has been more than twelve years since we collins 1988 1997b.
Others had proposed that as polonium comes from uranium decay the source of polonium halos in granite was the polonium being dissolved away from a uranium source.
Robert gentry s polonium halos are one of the only arguments against an old earth that s published in a peer reviewed journal.
Gentry 1965 1970 1974 1983 1988.
Earth science associates esa conducts scientific research publishes books and produces videos showing evidence for the young age of the earth and its instant creation in support of the bible s genesis record of creation.
Halos attributable to polonium 212 and polonium 216 are not found.
Additionally haloes attributable to the two polonium isotopes in the decay series of uranium 235 po 211 and po 215 are also missing.
One of the better creation evidence arguments is put forth by dr.
He discovered that granite contains polonium halos.
Hunt and others 1992 discussed robert gentry s hypothesis proposing that polonium po halos and granite were created nearly instantaneously on day three of the genesis week gen 1 9 10.
Gentry is a nuclear physicist who worked 13 years for the oakridge national laboratory 69 82.
However as collins 1997 points out gentry has identified only halos for those isotopes of polonium associated with the decay of uranium 238.
Gentry has shown that polonium halos microspheres of coloration found in the earth s granite foundation rocks are produced by radioactive decay of.
He believes that he has found evidence in pleochroic halos of granites that indicate that the earth cannot have been formed over millions or billions of years but must have been created in a short amount of time in keeping with the.
