Re: LNT as a universal model

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Sorry, I have to disagree.  Newton's 3 laws, Ohm's law, the Faraday
equations, the universal law of gravitation, the Law of Mass Action, the
Michaelis-Menten equation, even the Schroedinger equation have all been
validated by experiment, and repeatedly.  In fact, they are based on
experimental observation.  So are most of the equations we have all studied
in physics and chemistry.  By contrast, the LNT hypothesis is not based on
experimental observation, including astronomical observation.  Moreover,
proper application of any equation is to the range of values that it is good
for.  That is, interpolation is fine, but extrapolation outside an
experimentally validated range is risky.  The use of the LNT theory to
"predict" "latent cancer fatalities" is entirely a matter of extrapolation.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael McNaughton <mcnaught@lanl.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:15 AM
Subject: LNT as a universal model


>At 10:08 AM 10/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>I am curious, are there ANY
>>applications (nuclear or non) for which LNT is clearly the BEST model
>>and has universal acceptance?
>
>Almost every LNT equation we learned in school is an approximation. This
>includes Newton's 2nd law, Ohm's law, expansion, the gas laws, ...
>
>mike
>Mike McNaughton
>Los Alamos National Lab.
>email: mcnaught@LANL.gov or mcnaughton@LANL.gov
>phone: (505)667-6130
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