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New Estimates for Universe's Age
Makarand writes "In a study published recently in the journal Science,
a team of researchers say that they are 95% sure the universe is between 11.2 billion
and 20 billion years old according to this
article on Space.com.
The new calculations from cosmologists at Case Western Reserve University and Dartmouth College involved new information about old star clusters in our galaxy and a better understanding of how stars evolve." Which blows my theory that the Universe is predated by Zsa Zsa Gabor, but oh well.
Only 11 to 20 billion years and I'm somewhere between 4 to 693,000 years old
You just couldn't avoid mentioning the word "cluster", could you?
Ahhh, the universe was a nice place in the age of the Beowulfs. ninty-sixty-three hundread thousand dollars ago...
a team of researchers say that they are 95% sure Zsa Zsa Gabor is between 86 and 172 years old
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
42!
. . . no, wait, that's the answer to a different question.
"This must be a Thursday, I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
They're only 95% sure. I'm 100% sure the universe is over 1000 years old. I'm only 5% away from the top scientists! Woot!
And I guess when this term will be up, the RIAA and Disney will have the universe's age revised AGAIN !
The universe is 4003 years old. Everyone knows that, details of the universe's creation can be found in the Bible.
I mean really, when are these so-called scientists going to stop with this ploy to undermine The Truth.
Jeeze.
"Oh, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. 14% of people know that."
Homer J. Simpson
One Bible year is 5 million earth years. At least that's what it feels like when I go to church.
I am a bit surprised. Granted, I am no astrophysicist, but I knew that the Earth is estimated to be 4.5 billion years old. So I expected the universe to be much, much older than that.
:-)
What, 15 billion years isn't long enough for you? Sheesh.
May we never see th
It's 15.6 Billion plus or minus 4.4 Billion. Jeez...
If this trend continues, I expect that in twenty years or so, there'll be a headline "A scientific research team states that it's 99% sure the Universe was created before last Tuesday"?
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I have to take their word for it. I can't remember anything before 8 billion years ago. Maybe my memory isn't what it used to be a couple of billion years ago.
I'm 99.9% confident that the universe is between zero and 42 quadrillion eons old.
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...the upper limit on the age of the the fuzzy leftovers in the back of my fridge.
That the age of the Universe is between 24 years (my age) and infinity. Does this fundamentally change how we think about the Universe? Do I deserve a Slashdot post??
New age science-fiction mumbo jumbo.
1. Time did not start with the big bang. Its inhenerently unprovable to know when "time" began. The concept of time 'beginning' is asinine new-age physics crap.
2. The "Universe" is similarly unknowable. The idea of saying that the area of space/matter we can see or even extrapolate is the entirety of all things existing is ludcrious.
I hate it when new-age physicists bandy about terms like "Universe" as if such a concept is knowable. What if there is more matter 10e1000000000 AU's away? We'd never ever know it.