Age of the Earth research. Most geological samples from Earth are unable to give a direct date of the formation of Earth from the solar nebula because Earth has undergone differentiation into the core, mantle, and crust, and this has then undergone a long history of mixing and unmixing of these sample reservoirs by plate tectonics, weathering and hydrothermal circulation. All of these processes may adversely affect isotopic dating mechanisms because the sample cannot always be assumed to have remained as a closed system, by which it is meant that either the parent or daughter nuclide (a species of atom characterised by the number
And What Will We Do Tomorrow? And What Will We Do Tomorrow? "And What Will We Do Tomorrow" is a short story by Orson Scott Card. It first appeared in his short story collection "Capitol" and then later in "The Worthing Saga". This story is about Mother the empress of Capitol. In it she wakes up from suspended animation for her one waking day every five years and meets with all of her ministers. All of them try lying to her except for the minister of colonization who doesn’t know anything about what is going on in his department. She sends him away and asks to