Question

1- Insert l Chart T Text Table Shape Media Comment Decay Curve for Carbon-14 The Shroud of Turin is a piece of linen (cloth made from fibers of the flax plant) bearing the image of a man thought, by many people, to be Jesus Christ. If the C-14 activity of linen resembles that of paper objects and a sample of the shroud gives a reading of 70 counts/s, approximately how old is the shroud? Does this evidence support the belief that this is the burial cloth of Christ? Explain.

Answer 1

Activity (counts 5000 10000 15000 25000 30000 35000 40000 20000 Timely

As we can see from the image above, the time corresponding to an activity of 70 counts/s is less than 1000 years. Jesus christ is belived to have lived around 2000 years back. So, the linen is not his burial cloth.

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