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Planets May Form in Hundreds, Not Millions, of Years

Posted by timothy on from the presto-formo dept.

Seanasy writes "Recent simulations on the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Terascale Computing System suggest that planet formation may take a lot less time than previously thought. The results were published in SCIENCE."

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  1. This isn't at all surprising by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: -1, Troll

    God made the Earth about 6000 years ago so it couldn't have formed in millions of years. Similarly evidence from the petrochemical industry is now demonstrating that coal and oil can form in short periods of time too. Ultimately all science will lead back to scripture.

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