When this happens gasses dissolved in the magma are able to come out of solution, forming gas bubbles (the cavities) inside it. When the magma finally reaches the surface as lava and cools, the rock solidifies around the gas bubbles and traps them inside, preserving them as holes filled with gas called vesicles.
He took them to the Argonne National Laboratory, where he was granted time on a late-model mass spectrometer. In a meeting in Wisconsin soon afterward, Patterson revealed the results of his study. The definitive age of the Earth is 4.550 billion years (give or take 70 million years). The current estimate for the age of the earth is 4.54 Â± 0.05 billion years (4.54 Ã 109 years Â± 1%).
There is no debate. The universe is an unknown number of billions of years old. Only entrenched creationists still insist that the Earth, for example, is only 6,000 years old, using their unique brand of pseudo-science to prove it. They are the laughingstock of the scientific community.here is rather sufficient evidence that the world is millions of years old, so that means that the universe must be an unimaginable multitude times older.