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If a piece of debris from another solar system made it into the earths atmosphere via comet or meteor(astriod belt).Would its carbon test show if found on earth to be billions of years old due to the solar system in which it derived?As in the sun of this unknown system would be different from our own and time would advance at a different rate.So technically the foscils of so called ancient dinosaur bones(the sediment that filled the underground cavity of a decomposed bone structure)are only really showing the date of the sediment.Which could easilly be this old due to cosmic relocation.

2007-04-03 04:01:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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First of all, carbon testing doesn't work that far back in time but there are other radioactive tests that work. We might detect an age different from our Sun but we've done that on loads of meteorites already. Time should not advance at a different rate unless it was moving at a speed close to the speed of light with respect to us.

2007-04-03 04:08:07 · answer #1 · answered by Gene 7 · 1 0

Your question is so filled with words and concepts that it is most difficult to understand exactly what it is that you wish to know. First of all, if a hunk of mereorite was found on Earth, it could easily be dated with modern equipment. When dated, it could be found to be older, or younger than the Earth. That has nothing to do with dinosaurs from the past, nor with the sediment that has filled their bones.

I am confused in where you want this line of thinking to go. You seem to want some kind of conclusion to be reached,
but based on your premise (the original situation set up words), I cannot see one. Linkage between specific dinosaur bones and meteorites is not obvious, and highly unlikely unless you are trying to refer to the possibility of dinosaur extinction due to the impact of an Asteroid with the Earth.

If that is your chosen topic, there is no vehicle to deposit material from the Asteroid into the dinosaur bones. That is where the idea falls apart.

2007-04-03 04:36:44 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0 0

That's a possiblity.

As technology changes so do the views of scientists.

When, one day, Mr. Spok invents the FOOBAR scope and it shows the age of things to be vastly different from Carbon Dating and is accepted by the community, then ALL the artificats in libraries will see changes and we'll see them re-draw the lines of the past.

But that day has to come.

2007-04-03 04:19:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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