时间胶囊能否比地质更持久？

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun BY PETER BRANNEN ILLUSTRATIONS BY FEDERICO TRAMONTE STUFF IS OLD WHERE I LIVE, in greater Boston. Clapboard houses that list with age bear plaques touting the former residence of the town cordwainer or victualler. The gravestones, worn rough by New England winters, also stand crooked, bearing similarly outmoded biblical names—a Lemuel here, an Ephraim there. Old, too, are the local churches where many of these souls were commended to the great hereafter. As for the building material that makes up these churches, well, that’s a little bit older still. …