EVIDENCE OF A YOUNG SOLAR SYSTEM

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EROSION RATES

Geologist Stuart Nevins, has shown that about 27.5 x 10⁹ tons of sediment are washed into the earth's oceans every year. Recent measurements of the sediments in the oceans indicate a total of about 820 x 10¹⁵ tones. If we assume that the rate of erosion has stayed the same and the oceans were in fact empty when they were formed, the erosion process can not be older than 29.8 million years.

COSMIC DUST

The rate of influx of cosmic dust entering the earth's atmosphere is known to be about 14 x 10⁶ tons per year (Scientific American, 1960). Cosmic dust is very high in nickel. If the earth was 4.5 x 10⁹ years old as stated in many text books and the rate of influx of cosmic dust has remained constant over time, the earth should be covered in a layer of nickel rich cosmic dust approximately 55 metres deep. The amount of dust and measured nickel erosion into the earth's oceans indicate that the influx of cosmic dust began about 9000 years ago.

ATMOSPHERIC HELIUM

Studies by Melvin A. Cook (Nature, Vol. 179) show that at the present rate of release of helium into the atmosphere from the breakdown of radioactive element, if all the helium in the atmosphere was produced in this manor, the age of the earth would be between 10,000 and 100,000 years.

THE SHRINKING SUN

Dr Harold Slusher states: “To the astronomer there are a number of indicators ... that would seem to indicate an age of no more than 10,000 years for the solar system and the earth” (Slusher, 1983). One of the more interesting of these indicators is the measured reduction in the Sun's diameter. Since 1836, over 100 different observations at the Royal Greenwich Observatory and the U.S. Naval Observatory have made direct visual measurement which show that the diameter of the sun is shrinking at the rate of 1.52 metres per hour.

According to current models of stellar development, when a star like our sun is very young, its enormous output of energy is provided by gravitational contraction. As it grows older, the models show that the source of its energy should change over to that of nuclear fusion as it slowly develops a very hot and dense core. The standard model of the sun assumes that it is around 5 billion years old and that it has already passed into its nuclear burning stage. This makes it all the more extraordinary that in 1976 a team of Russian astronomers, writing in the respected British scientific journal Nature showed how their research pointed clearly to the startling fact that the sun does not even seem to possess a large dense nuclear burning core. Instead, their results showed the sun as bearing the characteristics of a very young homogeneous star that corresponds with the early stages of the computer models.

Records of solar eclipses imply this relatively rapid shrinkage has been going on for at least the past 400 years.

As far as researchers can tell, this rate of shrinkage has been constant since the formation of the sun. Using the most conservative data, it would indicate that the sun was twice its present diameter 100,000 years ago. 20,000,000 years ago the surface of the sun would have touched the surface of the earth.

SLOWING EARTH

The Earth is constantly undergoing a deceleration caused by the braking action of the tides. The current rate of rotation of the earth is 7.27 x 10^-5 Radians per second. Through the use of ancient observations of eclipses and atomic clocks, it is possible to determine the deceleration of the Earth to be roughly 2 milliseconds per day per century. This amounts to a lengthening of the day by 1 second every 500 days. ( It is for this reason that time keepers insert "leap seconds" from time to time. It allows the atomic clocks to track the earth's rotation more accurately. This is equal to a change in the rate of rotation of -6.14 x 10^-8 Radians per second per century.)

Although this figure seems very small, this deceleration has been taking place as long as the earth has had both a moon and oceans. It implies that in about 82 years time a day will in fact be one minute longer than it is now. In about 5,000 years time, a day will be one hour longer than it is now. In about 2,000,000 years the length of a day on earth will be 400 hours. Life as we know it could not exist.

Similarly, if we look back in time, we see that about 10,000 years ago, the length of a day on earth would have been between 22 and 23 hours. About 100,000 years ago, the length of the day would be about 13 hours. Perhaps some 1,000,000 years ago the length of a day on earth would have been approximately 2.5 hours. Life as we know it could not exist.

All these indicate that the age of the solar system is much younger than traditional scientific theory states.

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