Aristotle thought the earth had existed eternally. Roman poet Lucretius, intellectual heir to the Greek atomists, believed its formation must have been relatively recent, given that there were no records going back beyond the Trojan War. The Talmudic rabbis, Martin Luther and others used the biblical account to extrapolate back from known history and came up with rather similar estimates for when the earth came into being. The most famous came in 1654, when Archbishop James Ussher of Ireland offered the date of 4004 B.C.
Answer:
The correlation is: as the same mass of metal moves toward the interior of the Earth, more of the weight of the planet squishes down on the metal, making it more dense.
Explanation:
The acceleration decreases and its being pushes slower