[SeekAndFind]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sabine Hossenfelder, aka Bee
Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

I am a physicist. More exactly, I am a theoretical physicist. People often wonder what a theoretical physicist does. You might not believe it, but most of the time I think. Sometimes, I scribble funny looking things with a pencil on a notebook. Processes like this usually involve lots of coffee and walking up and down the corridor.

I am working on physics beyond the standard model, phenomenological quantum gravity, and modifications of general relativity. You find more about my research on my homepage.

[VanDeKoik]

I hope she isnt a flat-earther as well.

[BuffaloJack]

You can’t rely on Carbon-14 dating anymore. The Japanese scientists recently discovered that lightning is hot enough to convert, via thermonuclear fusion, some normal C12 into C14. Thus, the amount of C14 is increasing all the time, so you can’t just look at how much C12 is left, because we no longer have a fixed starting point.

[Disestablishmentarian]

What she is saying is that cosmology is a lot of theory and assumptions based on few facts.

The main “Facts” are the relative velocity of galaxies from Earth (our vantage point) based upon red shift.

The interpretation of red shift has been STRONGLY CHALLENGED by astrophysicist Halton Arp. It has also led to huge contradictions when general relativity is applied, which in turn have led to the MASSIVE FUDGE FACTORS: Dark Matter & Dark Energy.

These very fudge factors, as improbable as they are, were essentially refuted in the recent experiments at CERN which detected the Higgs boson (solidifying the Standard Theory of Particle Physics, but further FALSIFYING the current cosmology fairy tale).

[Bryanw92]

>>with all fossil records in place

God does not lie.

I don’t design universes so I really don’t care if the Young Earthers are right or the Old Earthers are right. But I cannot accept the idea that God would create a false fossil record to confuse us.

TBH, the ending of the Battlestar Galactica reboot is the best origin story for Earth’s human race. ;-)

[Chuckster]

Publish or perish.

[Da Coyote]

The article is solid. Good stuff.
Yes, I also have one of those blasted PhDs.

[mountainlion]

You can’t prove the theory of evolution. You can’t prove how old the earth is. There are so many theories out there that do not agree you can not even guess with a Bill Clinton type of consensus.

[SkyDancer]

Dig down and count the rings?

[PLMerite]

"How do you prove that Earth is older than 10,000 years?"

Sorry.

[ex91B10]

>>People often wonder what a theoretical physicist does. You might not believe it, but most of the time I think.<<

Didn't Fermi contemplate splitting an atom while standing at a crosswalk?

That's what I've heard.

Those that can do DO, others...

[MasonGal]

Bookmarking this for later. (My husband and I had a conversation about some of this just the other day.)

[BenLurkin]

Is this satire?

[Vermont Lt]

It was here before me. It will be here after. Aside from that, it is a curiosity.

[Oscar in Batangas]

I can’t personally PROVE that anything existed before October, 1948.

However, I willingly rely on those older than I to be telling the truth about things that happened before I was born.-—Just as I assume that my kids and grandkids believe me when I tell them about things before their time.

I have always held to the possibility that God with His infinite sense of humor could have created the world 6,000 years ago and just made everything LOOK old. (And I’m a retired nuclear physicist who should know better)

[sparklite2]

Take a walk through the Grand Canyon.
But leave your Kool-Aid back at the Rim

[cincinnati65]

What if I told you that our "Earth" is just one of an endless stream of "recycles" that God does over the eons, that souls are "recycled" and "reused" as well as the material reused to recreate the universe each time?

Sound crazy? Consider this.

Revelation speaks of a "new heaven and a new earth". If my "recycling" theory is correct, it is conceivable that the material in the earth could be billions of years old, but "life" on the current earth could be only a few thousand years old. It could explain finding aged fossils of primitive "men", without finding a clear evolutionary path from Neanderthals to Cro-Magnons. It could explain those who believe in reincarnation and past lives.

[farming pharmer]

Wouldn't the amount of argon 40 in the earth's atmosphere prove that it (the earth) is much, much older than 10,000 years? Especially that when you consider the only source of argon 40 is potassium 40 decay (with a half life of 1.248×10^9 years)?

BTW, star formation of Argon is isotopes 36 & 38, not Ar40,

[Revolutionary]

Two key items:
1. It is arrogant to believe God’s day is one rotation of our Earth among the vast universe.
2. Darwin’s primary premise is wrong: It is not the “survival of the fittest”. It is the survival of the sufficient. Sufficiently fast, sufficiently strong, sufficiently camouflaged, sufficiently smart or a sufficient combination of the aforementioned.

[Oztrich Boy]

Post glacial isostatic rebound since last ice age

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The 40 other radiometric tests will prove it.