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How can they tell how old things are in the Universe?

Not only that, but since the faster things go, the slower time goes wouldn't that make certain speedy things much older/younger than what our concept of them would be?

Update:

KennyB: Please see Einstein's work.

Here is an exerpt from an MIT website:

One of Albert Einstein's greatest insights was realizing that time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to something else.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    with the help of Radioactive isotopes we find the age of any old things and even through laser techniques.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Carbon dating is merely a baseline.

    When it really comes down to it, we can only see time as an objective effort close to our own experience.

    Hence the "frame of reference" problem.

  • 1 decade ago

    every year old man time has a news breifing ,before ringing in baby time.............

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