Nobody is denying that time flows differently according to the speed of the reference frame. This is not what opposes YEC (young earth creationists) and contemporary astronomy : their question is how many rotations did the earth looped around the sun since its existence ?
Now even without knowledge of Michelson-Morlay formulas, it's obvious that they don't change this NUMBER !
So your Langevin twins story is completely irrelevant here.
Relativity has nothing to do with the argument : either the earth has completed 6000 revolutions around the sun, (which is the definition for an earthly year) or much more. The actual number is not depending on the reference frame.
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Nobody is denying that time flows differently according to the speed of the reference frame. This is not what opposes YEC (young earth creationists) and contemporary astronomy : their question is how many rotations did the earth looped around the sun since its existence ? Now even without knowledge of Michelson-Morlay formulas, it's obvious that they don't change this NUMBER ! So your Langevin twins story is completely irrelevant here.
Not at all ; an integer number of rotations is not affected by time dilatation.
Relativity has nothing to do with the argument : either the earth has completed 6000 revolutions around the sun, (which is the definition for an earthly year) or much more. The actual number is not depending on the reference frame. P. R.