2012-09-20, 11:17 AM
Satellite Wrote:I thought it would take billions of years for the galaxies, solar systems... and our sun to form etc.
And it did. According to the numbers you quote, it took about 9 billion years before the Earth formed.
Quote:Is this "13.7 billion" (in the light of new research take or give 2 bil years) somehow a way longer period of time in space because AFAIK time functions in some crazy ways in space? I haven't studied much of physics, so I would be glad if some of you science nerds you could explain this a bit more.
Time doesn't behave any differently in space (except in black holes, I guess). Things do look odd when you are looking very far away or at objects moving very fast, but that doesn't mean the universe has done 50 billion years of developing in what seems to us to be "only" 13 billion.