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How do they know?
Blue Started conversation Nov 25, 2002
One second in 4.5 billion years . . . .
How do they know? 
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NAITA (Join ViTAL - A1014625) Posted Nov 25, 2002
Really, really, incomprehensible equations that show it only slows 2.22E-10 seconds every year. Well, that's if we're talking about actual billions here, and not the tiny american billions.
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Blue Posted Nov 25, 2002
Maybe they travelled forwards 4.5 billion years and then . . . . . . . 
No - I won't go there 
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NAITA (Join ViTAL - A1014625) Posted Nov 26, 2002
Me neither. The sun might have exploded by then. Or the earth might be scorched by a giant red sun and only be inhabited by huge crab creatures. 
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