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PamW

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3. Evidently you don't understand LINEARITY!!

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 01:09 PM

Dec 2013

kristopher states
I should add, that the nuclear industry delights in misusing by claiming it as "proof" invalidating the Linear No Threshold approach to understanding the risks of damage from ionizing radiation.

The existence of a repair mechanism DOES INVALIDATE Linearity.

If you don't know that; then you don't understand what is meant by "Linearity".

The initial damage IS proportional to the radiation dose. If that were ALL that was happening, then there would be linearity.

But if there is a repair mechanism; then the additional effect of the repair mechanism DEVIATES from the initial linearity.

It's as if we have a linear equation: y = ax

If I add an exponential term to it; y = ax + exp(cx)

then BY DEFINITION I've messed up linearity.

Sorry; but the experimentally demonstrated existence of a repair mechanism CONCLUSIVELY and BY DEFINITION invalidate linearity.

PamW

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Radioactivity muddles the alphabet of DNA [View all] kristopher Dec 2013 OP

Yes; this has been hypothesized for some time... PamW Dec 2013 #1

That's an interesting take on the new data... kristopher Dec 2013 #2

Evidently you don't understand LINEARITY!! PamW Dec 2013 #3

Pam, ffs darkangel218 Dec 2013 #5

I CALL them as I SEE them!!! PamW Dec 2013 #6

So Im an idiot because i oppose nuclear power?? darkangel218 Dec 2013 #7

NOT at ALL!!! PamW Dec 2013 #9

I'm sorry, but you're contradicting yourself. darkangel218 Dec 2013 #11

That is the claim of the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #8

Certainly the argument about what IS / IS NOT LINEAR... PamW Dec 2013 #10

LNT theory is accepted by by everyone except those promoting the nuclear industry. kristopher Dec 2013 #12

NOOO...!!! PamW Dec 2013 #13

Yeeees! kristopher Dec 2013 #14

Credentials?????? PamW Dec 2013 #15

ROFLMAO kristopher Dec 2013 #16

Kinda sucks the oxygen right out of the room huh madokie Dec 2013 #17

That's pretty much the mission of a disruptor caraher Dec 2013 #18

BALONEY!!! PamW Dec 2013 #21

This message was self-deleted by its author darkangel218 Dec 2013 #4

The sad thing is that there is an actual intelligent scientific debate to be had about LNT caraher Dec 2013 #19

"how all the mechanisms interact in a specific dose rate range" kristopher Dec 2013 #20

I think there are two somewhat parallel lines of research here caraher Dec 2013 #22

EXACTLY what I was saying above... PamW Dec 2013 #23