You will know your date of birth, know your father’s date of birth and perhaps even know your grandfather’s date. It is also possible that your ancestors must have believed in making a family tree, due to which you can know the date of birth of 7-8 sons of your family. But do you know about the date of birth of the earth (How scientists know about earth age)? Have you ever thought that when is the birthday of the earth (Do you know about the age of earth), how many years ago it was formed? Although scientists have found out a lot about the age of the earth, but after millions of years, how did people know that when the earth was actually formed?
According to the report of the How Stuff Works website, people have been trying to find out the real age of the earth for many centuries. According to the most popular theory, the age of the earth in crores is 450 crore years, in which 50 million years are considered upwards and downwards. This estimate was reached in the 1950s, after which it is considered the true age of the earth. Let us now know how the age of the earth was estimated after so many million years.
Many scientists had guessed according to their own
According to the report, the Greek philosopher Aristotle had guessed that time has neither a beginning nor an end. In such a situation, he had told the earth to be of many years. But the scholars of ancient India, with their knowledge, had estimated the age of the earth as 190 crore years by guessing the event like Big Bang in that period. In the Middle Ages, Christians tried to find the age of the earth in the Bible and then they could only estimate its age from 5 thousand years to 7 thousand years. Between 1700 and 1800, many scientists made different guesses. Some estimated it according to the cooling of the earth, while some estimated the age according to the sedimentation.
This person had found out the age of the earth
The most accurate estimates began to be made in the early 20th century, when radiometric dating was introduced. Using this method, scientists detect the radioactive energy emanating from the stone, which reveals the age of the stone. In 1953, Claire Paterson examined meteorites that fell from the sky centuries ago, from which she estimated that the age of the Earth is 450 million years.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 30, 2022, 11:11 IST
