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About 14billion and 51 mins
Dates only stack up if you take the Christian clock. The earth is somewhere between 4.5 - 14 billions years old, what date does that make it?
About 14billion and 51 mins
I'll update this next year.
9th September 2009.
Working off that darn Christian clock Stuie
I'll update this next year.
Darn tootin. If a tree falls in a forest and no-one's around, it makes a lovely loud crash.
08/08/08 was another lucky one.
Apparently, that's why they the Olympics open on that day last year.
My mother also remarried that day but I think that was just down to availability.
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Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
Of the date to marry, your mother or her husband?
Not untrue, but you could as correctly say it's also somewhere between one second and 160,000,000,000,000 million billion trillion millennia old.
The accepted figure for our solar system is in or around 4.6 billion years, with our gaff some 4 or 5 hundred million years younger than that. The 14 billion is currently at the top end of the age of our universe.
I like numbers, the freaky things they do, like the multiples of 9 thing.
But as to any significance? Of course not. They're pretty arbitrary symbols after all.
For one thing the numbers we use come from a range of different cultures.
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The earth is older than the universe !
Best guess puts the universe at between 15 & 20 billion years old, but thats all it is, an educated guess. Our solar system formed about 4-5 billion years ago so its estimated that earth began forming 4.5 - 14 billions years ago.
I think you can take out the 14 billion year old earth theory! It'd be impressive if it were 10 billion years older than the rest of the solar system.
There isnt really a definitive theory yet but they are getting closer to one all the time. The problem being its very hard to correctly age anything that is too far away to radiation age. Different strands of science will have a different theory of how old planets/stars etc are, it depends what field of science your working in I suppose. There are mad whores who think the world is only 6000 years old but thankfully his 8 years were up last Jan.
Yeah, but I think 4.5bn is the common consensus. On the basis that no-one was there to check, it can't be proven, but I don't think there's any serious argument for the earth being 14bn years old.
Have read about the Mayan calender ending on that day alright along with the appearance of the lizard king and Planet X. Some pretty heavy stuff about it on conspiracy theory websites.
Well if its true we have
1200 days
Or 3 years, 3 months, 13 days
103,680,000 seconds
1,728,000 minutes
28,800 hours
171 weeks (rounded down)
I know quiet day
Cool, that's my birthday too, except the 07 bit obviously!!
Great, then I get to die with all ye great guys, instead of dying alone at a later date.
Speak for yourself...
On the subject of the origins of the world, I always think of Archbishop Ussher, who spend years going through the Bible in the 1650's and finally calculated the beginning of creation to have been nightfall preceding 23 October 4004 BC (around suppertime).
Eh... no it doesn't.
The accepted consensus is that our universe is between 13 and a half and 14 billion years old.
The solar system is 4.6 billion years old.
The earth cannot be older than the solar system, as it formed from the circumstellar disc formed as the Sun itself formed, and indeed it isn't. It's pretty much agreed that it is 4.5 billion years old or so, maybe a smidge more (4.54).
Nobody estimates that it began forming 14 billion years ago, don't know where that's coming from.
Last edited by stann; 09/09/2009 at 6:35 PM.
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Anyhow, here's a Motorhead song about today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K5mHHhVU4
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