what is relative dating?
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I'm assuming that that refers to giving the age of two things relative to one another, rather than identifying the absolute ages of things.  For instance, when you take two trees that lived in similar times and places, you can look at the width of the tree rings to get an idea as to the conditions (especially moisture) during a given year.  If you have two such wood samples, you should be able to see a pattern between the two.  Using taht information, you could count rings and figure out how much older one piece of wood was relative to the other.  But without knowing the year the trees dies, or without knowing the particular calendar years behind the droughts, you wouldn't know that absolute age of either.  I'd imagine that there are similar things with radioisotope dating if you have a reason to think that the atmospheric conditions creating certain isotopes might change, but not knowing the exact concentrations at the time an organism lived.
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Good question. If you mean date as in two people doing things together and caring a lot about each other yes it's fine. If you mean date as in possible romance no. No because there might be some legal problems if the relationship doesn't work out.
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The age of a fossil may be specified in both relative terms (how old it is in relation to other fossils or rock units) and in absolute terms (approximately how many years old it is). One principle of relative dating is called superposition, which holds that in any one place, the lower rock layers (and fossils in them) are older than higher ones, unless there is evidence that the layers have been overturned. This is logical, since the lower sediments would have been deposited first. A related concept is correlation, whereby rock layers (strata) are compared with others in another location on the basis of their mineral composition, fossil content, and other features. When a rock unit or series closely matches those of another area, they are said to be correlated and considered to be of similar age. Correlations are especially reliable when they include index fossils, which are fossils with a limited age range. Good index fossils are easily recognized and widely distributed around the world, so that they aid both local and international correlations.\n\nAbsolute dating complements relative dating by providing a specific (not necessarily precise) chronological age for a given specimen, such as "50 million years before present." In recent years reliable forms of absolute dating became available through the development of radiometric dating methods. These methods are based on the known, regular decay of certain radioactive elements (isotopes) into other isotopes or "daughter products." By measuring the amount of "parent" and "daughter" products in a rock sample, its approximate age may be calculated.\n\nMany people have heard of the Carbon 14 method and assume that fossils are dated by it. Actually, in most cases the C-14 method is useful only on organic material less than about 50,000 years old, which includes many human remains and artifacts, but excludes most fossils. Absolute dating of fossils requires other dating methods such as the potassium-argon or rubidium-strontium methods, which involve isotopes with slower decay rates (longer "half-lives"). Such isotopes are rare in fossils themselves, but may occur in surrounding or adjoining rock layers, yielding an approximate age for the fossil-bearing unit. Using the principles discussed above, scientists also can deduce the approximate age of other layers correlated with the same formation, as well as an approximate age for layers above and below the formation (which would be somewhat younger and older respectively).\n\nThe terms "above" and "below" in this context are used in a relative or stratigraphic sense; that is, they are based on the positions of the units relative to each other (or correlated units), rather than their height above sea level. The branch of geology that deals with the correlation of rock layers is known as stratigraphy (or biostratigraphy when focusing on the fossils within the layers), and is an important tool of paleontologists.
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Carbon-14 dating is reliable for dating objects up to about 60,000 years old, the half-life of the isotope (5730 years) does not allow for accurate dating on objects much older than that.  Also, it is difficult to accurately date recent objects, as changing levels of carbon due to use of fossil fuels and nuclear explosions have changed the equilibrium of C-14 with its atmospheric production rate.  \n\nAlso, experiments have failed to show that half-lives of isotopes have changed as time has passed, therefore we can consider half-lives to be stable.  \n\nIn summary, we can consider radiocarbon dating accurate, as long as we are not considering objects older than about 60,000 years, (other radiometric dating methods are used for older objects) or recent objects.  People who claim that scientists misdate dinosaur bones as weeks old are misleading, as dinosaur bones are dated with uranium and rubidium, rather than C-14 (since they are millions of years old).  \n\nHope this is helpful.
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Dating: Of a couple, to be in the early stages of a relationship where they go out on dates to find out what each other is like, as a prelude to actually being a fully fledged couple.\n\nDo whatever you like doing. Go watch a movie, go have dinner, take a walk in the park, go to a fair, etc.
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Time is relative.  It doesn't really exist.  Time is effected by the speed of motion, and is not an object.
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ummm. . are you sure it's "dating" you're asking about?
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You may mean this.  If not post again.\n\nhttp://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/period/ar_iig.html\n\nhttp://www.csudh.edu/oliver/smt310-handouts/dating/dating.htm
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=How about a dating sight?
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When you and someone of the opposite sex who likes each other do things together ANY time of the day or night to spend time together and get know each other is dating.
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it's called dating, let them know you're not certain about anything at this point, so you want to date before seeing just them.
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May till August mainly however June is the most common month of all . If you are picking a date try to make it something special to your relationship rather than what everyone else is doing .
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It is an interesting date.\nI was thinking about that last month.\n\nBut this date is more interesting:\n04/05/06  01:02:03
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Older people get less dates , younger people get more dates .
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i'm 29 and i can so relate to you.  i mean dating itself is so confusing and once you are dating someone it is confusing to know how often you should date them, before it becomes exclusive.  i am going to keep coming back to your question to see the answers.  sorry i couldn't be more help.
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Neither.  Dating is the necessary prelude to courting.  Dating is where two people are learning about each other, exploring each others' personalities in order to determine if there can be something more.\n\nCourtship is after you've made that determination, and you're actively working to win each others' hearts.  If you do the courtship without the dating part, your chances of success are reduced because you don't know as much about each other.
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Pardon? Did you mean radiometric dating? That's where they take the known have life of an isotope (most commonly a carbon isotope) and count backwards to when it started in an attempt to find the date of origin. Otherwise, I'd guess it's some sort of Superhero Dating Service. I mean, where else is the Toxic Avenger going to find a girl?