Comment · Wed, September 26, 2012
My favorite piece of jewelry. It's a piece of meteorite. It's older than the Earth.
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chamora · -3 points
Your argument simplified. Everything is the universe, and the universe is 14.1 billion years old. Therefore everything is 14.1 billion years old.
When we talk about age, we mean the amount of time something has been in its current state.
Any meteorite that hit Earth would have formed out of the same nebula as the Earth did, and would have remained relatively unchanged since then. Making this meteorite the same age as Earth, or ~4 billion years.
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What about the possibility of other universes? Perhaps they are older. Perhaps our view of relativity is relativistic. Perhaps I should go to bed...