On 4/23/2014 3:29 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
Hi Liz,
The "billions" make sense to me, to be honest. Even before the earth, we still didn't
exist. It sounds like poetic liberty for "a mind blowing amount of time".
Cheers
Telmo.
It makes sense, but "millions" makes sense too and I think Liz is right that when Twain
said it (if he did) the Earth and the solar system were thought to be only tens of
millions of years old based on a calculation of how long the Sun could radiate from
gravitational energy. On the other hand the universe might have been assumed to be static
and infinitely old.
It's possible that Twain said "millions" and it later got changed to "billions".
Brent
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