Scientists studying Earth’s core have come up with a shocking estimate

In this new estimate, the Earth is surprisingly young. Perhaps as young as 1 billion years old.

I guess that's better than the old estimate that the Earth is almost 1/3 the age of the universe.

Scientists studying Earth’s core have come up with a shocking estimate
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...a-shocking-estimate/ar-BB18nq0e?ocid=msedgntp

This is just an FYI... I don't really have a political argument over a "young" Earth.

Okay, so how about this? Being young, the Earth formed life at a faster rate than ever before. Yay, evolution!

 

I don't think it's a question of the age of the earth, but just of its core:

The Age of the Earth’s Inner Core Revised

AUSTIN, Texas — By creating conditions akin to the center of the Earth inside a laboratory chamber, researchers have improved the estimate of the age of our planet’s solid inner core, putting it at 1 billion to 1.3 billion years old.

The results place the core at the younger end of an age spectrum that usually runs from about 1.3 billion to 4.5 billion years, but they also make it a good bit older than a recent estimate of only 565 million years.

... https://news.utexas.edu/2020/08/21/the-age-of-the-earths-inner-core-revised/​

Specifically, it seems to be in reference to the structure of the core as it exists now and when that came about.

 

your problem then is how to account for carbon dated rocks 3.8 billion years old......and if you think MSN.com is a valid source of science news you need to stop smoking that ****......

 

Yes, it's about the age of the core not the earth. The earth is about 4.5 billion years old.

 

Yeah, I was wondering how the core was so young. Could be plate tectonics are stirring iron in from material falling from outer space which happens to be younger than the Earth.

 

I use MSN because it's not behind a paywall.

As for old rocks, they could have come from supernovas.

 

It's about the formation of the core structure, not the age of the materials in it.

 

Well, a planet collided with the Earth in the distant past, and it's thought that that impact caused our Planet's core to maintain its electromagnetic. If that planet was younger than the earth that might lead to a younger core.

 

Oh, so this means the planet was still forming in a planetary nebula and did not yet have its solid surface yet.

 

No. It's simply a matter of when the structure of the core came to be as it is now, since the planet has obviously undergone changes since it formed. Getting slammed into by Thea would have changed the planet significantly, and even after that it would have taken a long time for the structure of the earth's interior to settle into what it is now.