Or how the worlds plates were billions years ago. Its all theory. Theory = BS. They should really stop poisoning peoples minds with all these theories.......
It is like being in a raft in the middle of the Ocean, seeing only out to the horizon (a few nautical miles away) and wondering "what does the rest of the Ocean look like?".
We cannot see further out than the horizon, but from the waves that appear to come our way from beyond the horizon, we could conclude that for some distance beyond the horizon, it looks pretty much the same as around our raft.
Some people don't understand that "theory" in science has not the same meaning as what they hear on TV; so they are convinced that "theory" is the same as "speculation". http://notjustatheory.com/
Anyway, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_… Be sure to follow the references that document the material. As a sketch, one way to find that age (and the one used for pedagogy) is to plot the speed with which galaxies move away from us against the distance of those galaxies to us. This is something you can measure. If the Universe was older, the plot would slant closer to the horizontal. There are other ways to get to the same number which do not involve measuring the recession velocity and distance of galaxies; those techniques yield similar results, so there's a good deal of confidence that they're getting the correct answer. Read that Wikipedia page for more details.
All what they is pure BS. Its all theory. Its not true. None can know how old universe is. Or how the worlds plates were billions years ago. Its all theory. Theory = BS. They should really stop poisoning peoples minds with all these theories.
