{"id":71134,"date":"2020-06-13T06:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71134"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:05:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:05:44","slug":"how-we-know-the-earth-is-ancient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=71134","title":{"rendered":"How We Know The Earth Is Ancient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In astronomy, we talk about billions of years like it\u2019s no big deal. But how can we be sure about timescales so far beyond the capacity for human intuition? Our discovery of what we now call deep time is very recent &#8211; as recent as our discovery of the true spatial vastness of our universe. And it came as scientists tried to measure the age of the Earth. 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