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The age of the universe has been determined to be between 13 and 14 billion years old. However Geologists have also determined that the Earth itself (and therefore our solar system) is about 5 billion years old. Now I have understood that the heavier elements that makeup Earth were created by fusion within stars and then dispersed when those starts exploded, and later coalesced into our Solar system. Now 9 billion years seems a very short time to me for suns to have been created, exploded, and the resulting matter for the disc that would become our solar system.  To me there seems to be a discrepancy and I want to find out how it is accounted for. Ideas(not theories with proof) that have popped into my mind include: The universe is actually older than we think; the big bank produced a large quantity of heavier elements as well as the well known hydrogen; or the life cycle of early suns in the universe was measured in millions of years rather than billions (so they could produce and disperse the heavier elements. What is the current scientific explanation for this.  I'm interested in actual science and not any creation mythologies. Thank You