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Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> writes:

> On 01/02/2017 02:00 PM, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Wolf K wrote:
>>
>>> Paleontologists and such use YBP = Years Before Present.
>>
>> That's only so they can sell a re-print of their books every ten million
>> or so years.
>
> What if we could determine the exact time of the big bang, and use
> that?

In what frame of reference?