radioactive decay rates are not constant

well....well...well...

So scientists have found that the decay rate of various elemental isotopes is not the unvarying standard we thought...

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/sun-082310.html

So the sun itself is likely to be emitting particles that effect the decay rate eh? All our timing devices dependent upon a constant decay rate have errors. Oh, medical diagnostic tracers aren't as accurate? Oh, radioactive dating methods might be erroneous? Hmmmm...... isn't THAT interesting.

maybe we aren't as old as we think. perhaps a great many tightly held beliefs against creation might not be so airtight as we'd like to believe.

let's find the god-particle and perhaps it will assuage our growing, gnawing, unbelief in the constancy of nature.

my ray-gun isn't as powerful as i hoped

well, i'm most seriously displeased! boo-hoo!

scientists have confirmed that there is an upper limit to the power density which a laser beam may possess.

Fedotov et al., (Phys. Rev. Lett), has demonstrated that the upper limit to intensity is ~2.6x10+26 W/cm2, which is dependent upon the residence time of the electrons within the laser beam or the total amount of electromagnetic energy stored in the pulse.

there will be no shooting people and watching them disappear, like in Star Trek.

there will be no shooting rogue asteroids bent upon colliding with the earth, causing a global extinction event.

there will be no salvation from nuclear attack via ICBM's.

no toasting of ants on the sidewalk.

do shooting terrorist-laden planes from the skies.

i am very sad. very sad indeed!

*snif**snif*