Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoELI 5 Carbon dating? And how we just found remnants of Theia from 4.5 billion years ago? How is that even calculable?message-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down11
arrow-up137arrow-down1message-squareELI 5 Carbon dating? And how we just found remnants of Theia from 4.5 billion years ago? How is that even calculable?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Explain Like I'm Five@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareTootSweet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days ago Theia… is a hypothetical ancient planet in the early Solar System which, according to the giant-impact hypothesis, collided with the proto-Earth around 4.50 billion years ago… Wikipedia page on Theia (Emphasas mine.)
(Emphasas mine.)