Inadvertently, the human page turner, that fallible and sometimes reviled third party onstage, has been absent from most of Haywoodâs recent performances, a consequence of the wireless age. The advantages are obvious: The iPad is portable, discreet, always well-rested.
He measured the half-life of Carbon-14 to be about 5,568 years. However after about 50,000 years there is so little Carbon-14 left in the specimen that it is very hard, almost impossible, to calculate its age. (Van Der Merwe) Libby ran many tests on items where the age was known, or estimated by other means.
1 The half-life of carbon-14 is about 6000 years. 2  Assume that a sample of charcoal formed by burning of living wood 15,000 years ago.