Can Po-218 halos be made in the laboratory?
It should be easy to do: Just lay a grain of polonium 218 on a rock and let it form a halo in three minutes time. Yet man cannot do it. The problem is that polonium is a gas, and it cannot “be put” anywhere; it just goes where it wants to. How then did polonium ever get into granite to begin with? How could it penetrate solid, thick granite, and then push itself into solid mica crystals within the granite? First, the gas could not do that. Second, it would have to do it in just a few seconds,—since it only lasts three minutes before it is changed into lead! It would have to enter almost instantaneously, or the halo could not form properly. Much of the halo is formed within a minute and a half.—pp. 27, 29. The crucial question: secondary origin. Trying to narrow this matter down, Gentry considered all the possibilities, and found four: 1 – The polonium entered the granite by itself—but it could not penetrate it in a hundred years, much less than a minute! Keep in mind that the rock had
