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mynewaccount5 t1_ix05pvc wrote

To be fair most gold and precious gems are pretty old.

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LazyLich t1_ix0ot02 wrote

tbh all gold on Earth is billions of years old

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Aozora404 t1_ix22me7 wrote

Everything is 13.7 billion years old

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YoureGrammerIsWorsts t1_ix230jj wrote

Gold is newer than that, it wasn't formed as part of the big bang

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Aozora404 t1_ix2c7h0 wrote

The elementary particles forming them were

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trafalmadorianistic t1_ix2gy31 wrote

Yes, but they wouldn't have been gold, not until they were all together.

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Aozora404 t1_ix2ryfn wrote

Is a pile of sand younger than the grains that make them?

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GiveMeChoko t1_ix2ntpc wrote

Then you and I must be 13,7 billion years old too.

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Aozora404 t1_ix2rvy6 wrote

That is what I’m saying, yes

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GiveMeChoko t1_ix2srx4 wrote

You sure it's 13.7 billion? Me personally I think we're a couple of years older. Like a decade or so

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GiveMeChoko t1_ix2ssj7 wrote

You sure it's 13.7 billion? Me personally I think we're a couple of years older. Like a decade or so

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LazyLich t1_ix383ic wrote

Yeah but the specific GROUPING of particles wasn't.

Like, yeah human tribes have existed for thousands of years, but the group "America" has only been around for a couple hundred.

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