Does radiometric dating say that rocks at higher elevations are slightly older because of General Relativity?

Question

I didn't know if it would be significant to cause an effect, and because they calculate a confidence interval for radiometric dating. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity says that the closer you get to a source of gravitation, the slower time runs. A GPS satellite has to correct for General Relativity and Special Relativity by 38 microseconds/day (GPS time runs 38 microseconds faster on average than on the surface of the Earth and they have to set the GPS clock wrong to make up for it). I know that rocks at higher altitudes don't have so much of a difference in altitude, but I was curious if General Relativity affects radiometric dating?

Answer 1

GPS satellites are a lot higher up than even the top of Mount Everest.



Let's look at the maths - assuming GPS time-differences as a "worst case" scenario:



39 microseconds/day is about 14 milliseconds/year.



In a million years that makes 14000 seconds, or about 3.9 hours.



An error of a few hours in a million years is a lot less than the uncertainty in radiometric dating.



Conclusion: No correction is necessary.

Answer 2

Id make a fortune if i made a dating service for Seniors called Radiometric Dating

Answer 3

Radiometric dating isn't that precise, but there should be some differences. Probably not that much though. Like how people who live on sea level don't age at a noticeably different rate than people who live in the Himalayas.

Answer 4

You wouldn't get a result since there would be no datable sample. None of the radioactive elements would have had time to decay into daughter products so there would be no ratio to measure. Unless of course God falsified evidence.

Answer 5

i believe radiometric dating is when they test the radio activity of the substance



the less radio active it is the older it is