I own some rocks that are likely billions of years old
That’s cool. I want to travel to the Canadian Northern islands someday and see the rocks there, which are likely that old. Some deposits on Michigan’s upper peninsula also date back to the Hadean, apparently.
I have three extremely good condition $2 US bills from the 50s before they started printing “In God We Trust” on them.
I own land. It’s been there all along.
My house, built in 1880.
Petrified wood, about 225 million years old.
By this logic, my oldest possessions are my protons, which are approximately the same age as the universe.
You would have to expound. I understand that protons are identical to each other, but I’ve never heard that they’re somehow all one particle.
The diamond in my wife’s engagement ring is more than a billion years old.
Diamonds are produced in the earth’s crust. The gold in that ring though…
