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New Estimates for Universe's Age

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-more-about-it dept.

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.

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Frok Pok

  2. Not FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woo woo woo!

  3. Re:wrecked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get off on ZsaZsa, no you get off when having gaysexwithdogs, you sick mutt! Get off, get off, get off the gaysexwithdogs and have real life you sick F___!

  4. I think by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    we know birthdate of universe when having not gaysexwithdogs anymore...... Mod not what this post can do for you, Mod what you can do for this post!

  5. Re:Accuracy...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    80% of people think you have wild crazy sweaty dirty gaysexwithdogs...... -Homo Simpson

  6. Re:Come on now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll? Oh, come on. You people have no sense of humor.

  7. In unrelated news.... by Dachannien · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The name Case Western Reserve University, which is certainly a mouthful for those of us who work/play there, comes from the 1967 merger of Case Institute of Technology (formerly Case School of Applied Science, founded in 1880 due to a generous land grant by prominent Clevelander Leonard Case, Jr., whose bust periodically peers out a window in the lobby of the building where I work) and Western Reserve University (formerly Western Reserve College, founded in 1826 and named after the Western Reserve of New Connecticut, which was a colonial reference to land in northeast Ohio claimed by interests of Connecticut since before the American Revolution).

    Combined, the name Case Western Reserve University has for decades presented the unknowledgeable with the opportunity to ask questions such as "Case what?" and "Is that a military school?" when in actuality, CWRU is one of the most underrated universities in the nation, making it heartily worthy of positive moderation and perhaps even an Insightful flag.

    Not to mention that Lawrence Krauss has written several books on physics and cosmology.

  8. Re:wrecked by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get off ZsaZsa, she was just ... a wreck

    Yeah, and an old one too...