#4.5 BILLION years

[shownumetal]

destroyed me

[mintybreakfast]

Good. I've been suspecting for a while that the universe is much older than commonly accepted estimates. I was just judging based on the time it takes for fusion to occur in the amounts we'd need in order to see the elements that surely exist.

If we can find uranium and plutonium on earth, I can't imagine they'd be exactly unheard of in other solid celestial bodies. To me, this indicates that the process of stellar birth, growth, death and rebirth must have happened many multiples of times in order for there to be the amount of heavy elements that must exist out in the vastness of space.

Thus, I would posit that the age of the universe is well beyond the revised estimate put forth here (^)

I have also suspected for several years now that the age of the earth is much older than we currently guess it to be. This is because of the geological formations I've seen both in person and while flying around on Google Earth. Particularly some of those in Australia.

MacDonnell National Park, right in the center of Australia, has a sort of geological column that appears to have not only found itself lying on its side, but is twisted and folded in a way that I can't understand without including some sort of earth-shattering event. Plus, Uluru itself appears (to my armchair-sitting, untrained eye) to be a fragment of a larger formation (one I might have potentially identified at some point but have since forgotten). It also appears to be laying almost perfectly on its side.

So, not only was there enough time passing (and yes, I recognize that it's mostly sandstone) for sedimentary layers to have been successively formed, but then something further happened that placed it sideways.

Mostly this is just a gut feeling, so I understand that I could be very wrong

Cosmic Paradigm Shift: New Research Doubles Universe’s Age to 26.7 Billion Years

A new study proposes that the universe may be 26.7 billion years old, challenging the widely accepted estimate of 13.7 billion years based on the Lambda-CDM concordance model.

Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.

For years, astronomers and physicists have calculated the age of our universe by measuring the time elapsed since the Big Bang and by studying the oldest stars based on the redshift of light coming from distant galaxies. In 2021, thanks to new techniques and advances in technology, the age of our universe was thus estimated at 13.797 billion years using the Lambda-CDM concordance model.

However, many scientists have been puzzled by the existence of stars like the Methuselah that appear to be older than the estimated age of our universe and by the discovery of early galaxies in an advanced state of evolution made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope. These galaxies, existing a mere 300 million years or so after the Big Bang, appear to have a level of maturity and mass typically associated with billions of years of cosmic evolution. Furthermore, they’re surprisingly small in size, adding another layer of mystery to the equation.

Some theories like Zwicky's ''tired light'' theory, and Paul Dirac's ''coupling constants'' may be one of the possible explanations and putting the ''cosmological constant'' under possible revision.

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[lastofgallifrey]

twelve spending 4.5 billion years punching through a 20ft thick wall of azbantium, a material apparently 400x harder than diamond, dying repeatedly in the process, all so he could get clara back... like whether you see them as platonic or romantic you cannot deny that he quite literally loved her to death

[windsweptinred]

[sentientsky]

once again in my "thinking about twelve and clara" hours (aka all the hours)

[malinaa]

i know they're literally the same person because . he IS the same person but like. i like twelveclara more than elevenclara

[voyagerprobe]

of COURSE theres aliens out there just statistically; maybe they’re even in our stellar neighbourhood, although they’re the equivalent of our single-celled organisms. i even think there’s probably aliens as intelligent as us, except they lived 500 galaxies away in the late jurassic.

[fadewalking]

I did it. I finally beat this game.

[moonsromance]

‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. a speech that touches the soul / as for me, i can't hear anything any longer.

what's peculiar about your soul?

⋆⭒˚.⋆ Your soul is... Ancient.

The death of someone such as yourself is an event rarely seen... It is a great honor to harbor such an elegantly aged soul. So much twisted wisdom contained within that pulsing, coiling mass... So many revelations, loves, losses, broken promises, rekindled hopes. You are cherished, of course... For you are a magnificently rare specimen. But the horrors you have seen live as long as you yourself, harrowing and unearthly. You are blessed. You are vexed.

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ TAGGED BY: @soulfulempathy tyyyyy ! ˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ TAGGING: anyone. everyone!!!

[zukkaoru]

14-year-old me liking a ship where one of them changes the past and risks all of time and space to save the other vs. 23-year-old me liking a ship where one of them changes the past and risks messing up the future in order to save the other. time is a flat circle.

[groundfault]

[soup-the-zombie]

I've been watching a lot of fossil hunting and paleontology videos recently and it's so crazy how many people in the comments arguing that dinosaurs aren't real and stuff. Like it's not even just dinosaur fossils either,the person in the video will find a crab fossil and say it's approximately 1 million years old or something,and people will say it's fake because earth is only 2,000 years old like ??? There's also a lot of people saying the fossil is actually a sculpture that was planted,a YouTuber I watch finds a lot of crab and ammonite fossils because the area he lives in used to be an ocean and people say he sculpted it or planted it

[musical-chick-13]

*sigh* Went down a rabbit hole of looking for trivia, and once AGAIN, people just cannot let any female character have anything.

[21st-century-minutiae]

"Chef Mike" (that is to say Microwaves), are generally scorned when it comes to quality food preparation. Microwaves allow for quick and convenient heating and reheating at the expense of proper cooking technique. When an individual goes to a restaurant, they expect the chefs to prepare the food in a way that they themselves could not so easily accomplish. Microwaving frozen mass-produced dishes is not what one expects.

The poster is mocking Olive Garden, a late twentieth, early twenty-first century casual American-Italian restaurant chain. The implication is that all of Olive Garden's menu items are reheated frozen dishes and that there are no chefs preparing the food.

Olive Garden occupies a niche of being one of the cheapest sit down, non-fast food restaurant chains. It is where people with struggling finances can get a relatively fancy meal, or where parents with picky children can go as a 'nice place' that their kids will actually eat at. It serves its niche very well, but is often mocked by people with discerning pallets or those who can afford better.

[capaldiera]

well. i just watched face the raven heaven sent and hell bent. bit insane all that wasn't it

[mindblowingscience]

Scientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world's mysteries at once—one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet. The first mystery has puzzled everyone from scientists to inquisitive children for millennia: where did the moon come from? The leading theory is that the moon was created 4.5 billion years ago when a would-be planet the size of Mars smashed into the still-forming Earth. This epic collision between early Earth and the proto-planet called Theia shot an enormous amount of debris into orbit, which formed what would become the moon. Or so the theory goes. Despite decades of effort, scientists have not been able to find any evidence of Theia's existence. New US-led research, published in the journal Nature, suggests they might have been looking in the wrong direction. Around 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) below Earth's surface, two massive "blobs" have baffled geologists since seismic waves revealed their existence in the 1980s.

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