(December 16, 2009 at 9:15 am)rjh4 Wrote: How long does it take for a solar system to develop, Void?That's irrelevant.
The point theVOID was making is that there are millions of Solar Systems we can look at, and they are all in different stages of formation. To use a metaphor, if you were investigating a crime, and had a CCTV tape that was 48 hours in duration, nobody would expect you to watch the entire 48 hours to see the crime develop. Instead, you would watch sections (every 10 minutes) until you could determine what lead up to the crime taking place.
If solar systems rapidly went through changes, I would agree that it is impossible for us to understand them. The thing is, solar systems slowly develop over millions of years. They are in different stages of development for long periods of time, thus allowing us to observe multiple solar systems in different stages of development.
