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Originally Posted by Eroica
ozark1 doesn't seem to have posted to any threads on the board since his post of 5 July above in this thread! So I'll go ahead and ask another question while we're waiting.
In the 1890s Lord Kelvin made an estimate of the age of planet Earth by making some fundamental assumptions and applying the principles of thermodynamics. His value - 20-40 million years - was a gross underestimate.
What was the principal reason that Kelvin arrived at such an erroneous estimate?
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Apologies for being away. My ISP decided to accidentally disconnect me for a couple of weeks. It didnt matter though as Eroica was entirely correct - for his info, the H5 is on display in Guildford, oh and the scilly isles started the whole longitude prize thing by wrecking the English fleet in 1714 (told you it was a bit silly)