The age of the earth is not definite. The creation of the earth itself is a theory.Theories have been around , but almost all of them are interesting and could make us an estimate of the life of the earth. The dimension of the earth and other planets are the result of measurablity due to the various methods specially to gifted to us by our ancestors ,the scientists and mathematicians who developed and contributed to the knowledge for our universal conscoiusness.The present estimates of the age of the earth is determined by the half life cycles of varoius radioactive isotope decays that are found in the rocks of the earth. Here are a few estimates:
By the absence of plutonium-244 in rocks the age of earth is estimated at least 30 half life cycle of it = 2.4 billion years. Here one half life cyle of plutonium-244 is 80 million years.
By the presence of uranium-235 (at 1%level in rocks), whose half life cycle is 0.71 billions, the age estimated is around 14.2 billion years.
The lead-207 decay points the age around 6 billion years.
The geologists,taking several estimates into considerations, consider it to be around 4.5 billion years.
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