If the earth is 4 billion years old how old it the matter the earth is created from?

Answer 1

The Earth is estimated at 4.567 billion years old. However, the matter it is made from would correspond to the age of the Universe, estimated at 13.7 billion years. Therefore, the Earth was an unformed amorphous mass far longer than it has existed.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_Earth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_the_universe

Answer 2

The earth is 4.6 billion years old and the matter of the Earth is made from rock.

Answer 3

The Earth and the Sun are products of a super nova that happened maybe five billion years ago, so the matter could be viewed in that age range. Since the heavy elements do not predate that time. (Gold, and heavy metal only happen in a super nova explosion.)

Answer 4

there are an awful lot of heavy elements which would not have been present at the very beginning of the universe 13 billion or so years ago that go to make up our planet, and it would have taken a few billion years at least to cook them up inside a fairly massive star before it turned nova scattering stuff everywhere from which our planet was to coalesce, hence the old saying, we are stardust.

Answer 5

the energy the earth is created from is infinitely old

Answer 6

It could be so old you can't make a number with it