Posted by
cavalier973 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:52:03 AM
See if you can follow this logic: The earth is the first created celestial body, and it is around 6,000 years old; the stars and galaxies were created after the earth, but are billions of years old. How could this be possible? Because time is not a constant; if you ask how long something took, you must also ask "From whose perspective?" The old analogy is that if you take twin brothers, keep one of them here on earth while you sent the other one on a rocket to the nearest star and back at near the speed of light; when the brother on the rocket got back to earth, he would still be relatively young while his twin brother would be an old, old man.