Carbon clock could show the wrong time: “Carbon dating is a mainstay of geology and archaeology – but

an enormous peak discovered in the amount of carbon-14 in the atmosphere

between 45 thousand and 11 thousand years ago casts doubt on the

biological carbon cycle that underpins the technique.” .PhysicsWeb The implications of this are profound. It highlights the precariousness of the web of assumptions on which our scientific ‘certainties’ rely.