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

Backreaction ^ | Sabine Hossenfelder

[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.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I hope she isnt a flat-earther as well.

If she is, her relativity and cosmology research must be quite unusual.

[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.

[freedumb2003]

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

Actually the “B Ark” feels right to me.

And I agree that “God the Trickster” is a very cynical idea.

[SkyDancer]

Dig down and count the rings?

[PLMerite]

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

Sorry.

[Alberta's Child]

Fields of study like cosmology, astronomy, and even meteorology here on earth are probably best described as “quasi-science” because it’s impossible to test most theories under controlled conditions that you need for a legitimate scientific method.

[wbarmy]

God would create a false fossil record

God did not create a fossil record, the flood did.There is even some evidence in Mt St Helens that fossils can form rather rapidly.

And there is the blood still in T-Rex to show that it happened not to long ago.

[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...

[humblegunner]

And there is the blood still in T-Rex to show that it happened not to long ago

You have to know that is just plain retarded.

[MasonGal]

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

[Bryanw92]

>>There is even some evidence in Mt St Helens that fossils can form rather rapidly.

I know. I took that class at Liberty University about 5 years ago. The ICR research is pretty interesting, but they still cherry-pick as much on the geological Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism battle as the Darwinists do on the biological Evolution vs Creation battle. They also throw out ID too easily.

[BenLurkin]

Is this satire?

[Dr. Ursus]

The article or the posts?