Shrinking Sun

It is ok to post things you aren't sure about. It helps if you ask about them rather than appearing to tell is all.You should be making little mental notes about the sources you are using. If several things they say prove to be wrong you might want to start doubting all of what they claim or at least take it with a large pile of salt and check it out.

So it will wait on more data of course.Meanwhile, it has no impact on the issue of the age of the earth at all. Continuing to use it as an argument for a young earth is disengenuous at best.

yet earlier they said:

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Through the use of ancient observations of eclipses, it is possible to determine the average deceleration of the Earth to be roughly 1.4 milliseconds per day per century

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Note the highlighted parts. You didn't restate it correctly. It is NOT a change of 1.4 milliseconds per day. It is saying that the length of the day is changing by 1.4 milliseconds after a century.This works out to 14 seconds on the day in 1 million years assuming it remains constant. That is the day is a quater of an hour and some longer now than it was when the dinosaurs died.Is this clearer now.[This message has been edited by NosyNed, 04-02-2004]

Good question Trae. I'd sure like to see some back up for that statment.

The oscillating sun is correct as far as I know. But it's on a basis of months or years IIRC. I don't understand the daily thing either.

I'm going on memory but I think this is not the reason that we expect the sun to bloat. The mass loss used to produce it's energy isn't great enough to be the issue.What will happen is the hydrogen will become depleted and the sun will start to undergo other fusion reactions. These will supply new sources of energy and will bloat the outer layers of the sun.I could, of course, be VERY wrong here. Hopefully someone who knows something will hop in here.