if the big bang...?

Question

if that theory be true, the earth is carbon dated to what? some odd billion years old? (65 i think it is?) what happened 100 billion years before the birth of earth due to carbon dating? where was the rock and how come it wasnt aging before this point?

k i will clerify, ive read on many questions the earths date was based on carbon dating. so why do they base it on this.

Answer 1

carbon dating is valid only to a few thousand years, becoming less accurate the earlier the sample.

Answer 2

Carbon dating only works over a time period of thousands of years due to the trace amounts of carbon in a living subject - there's just nothing left after a while, WAY before you could even date the planet, much less the universe. Other forms of radioactive dating can go back further - we discovered the Earth is 4.6 billion years through uranium dating.

Carbon dating only works on things that were alive. You can't carbon date a rock.

Answer 3

Big Bang theory date the Universe at 13.7 billions yrs old.

The sun at 5 billions yrs old

The Earth at 4.5 billion yrs old.

The 'rock' was interstellar dust and gas before the earth was 'born'

I believe carbon dating is only useful for a couple of thousand years. Don't know why.

This is a excellent question and I'm going to do a bit more research and get and edit this post.

Answer 4

The current idea of the universe, in laymen's terms, sounds a little like this...

A lot of really weird physics that we're still figuring out caused an enormous expansion (not explosion!) of particles and energy from a single point about 14 billion years ago. It's called the Big Bang, and it's not finished. When you look at all the galaxies today you can see they are moving away -- all of them -- as if they all started from a single point. There's also this stuff we can see called the Cosmic Microwave Background, which is just a fancy term for what's left to detect from the Big Bang (kinda like the smoke and crater from an explosion).

Anyway -- it was so hot in the early universe that anything other than the hydrogen atom couldn't form, because it would melt apart. So the entire universe was made of huge clumps of hydrogen, with pockets of empty space between them.

Gravity started making these clumps come together in larger and larger clumps. They start getting huge, and the hydrogen in the center started to feel like it's at the bottom of a big football pileup -- it's being squeezed from all sides by all this hydrogen around it. Eventually the pressure is so big that two hydrogen atoms get squeezed together, and when they merge into a helium atom, a nuclear explosion occurs. This is how a star like the Sun is born.

The star takes clumps of hydrogen and smushes them together into helium to make nuclear explosions. Fast-forward a few billion years, and you start running out of hydrogen.

When a star runs out of fuel it's a really nasty thing -- it can explode, and then collapse, and explode again. Sometimes it gets enormous and red, and is called a red giant. But whatever it does, when stars run out of fuel they start to try to use anything they can as fuel -- including the helium. By smashing together helium and other things as they run out of fuel, stars will make heavier and heavier atoms, including carbon, iron, gold, and things like that.

After a star has gone through it's lifetime a few times, all these extra heavy atoms are floating around in space around it. Eventually they clump together, and that's how all the planets formed, including Earth.

This was about 4.5 billion years ago.

And I'll stop there...

Answer 5

Physics and String Theory now tell us that before the big bang, there was a Big Crunch. An ever expanding and contracting universe.
You also have to remember, EVERYTHING is made of energy, even carbon. It makes no sense to ask where was solid matter (rocks) before the Big Bang. That's just a marrow minded thought process.

Answer 6

When the earth and universe were created, it must have been an amazing sight and sound, However...

The Bible does not date the creation of the earth. It is only the first day that is recorded. If you read the first line of any bible you will see that the Earth was certainly not created on the first day. it was there before. here it is for you

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 4And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Answer 7

what be you asking young man? The Earth is around 4.567 billion years old, the Universe is around 13.7 billion years old. Why the obsession with carbon dating, my man? It is pretty rubbish for dating anything beyond a few 100 000 years old.

Answer 8

Carbon dating method can not reach that far. Most very old dates are based on the supposed age of the geologic column. However it is only speculation, with little to no data to support it. You are asking a pointless question. No one knows.

Answer 9

Earth isn't dated by carbon. You cant do measure the Earth back that far due to the motion of the tectonic plates. They have dated meteorites to give us a clue to the age of the universe.

Answer 10

Yes, good question. And I want to know where "in heavens" did all this matter come from that gathered to one point in the universe, just to explode.
However, wouldn't a blob of matter that big have so much gravity that no matter how big the bang, nothing would happen except maybe a tremor?
The sun does not explode because of its gravity and it is dinky relative to all matter in the universe. just a thought, that's all.