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.

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Kind of a big range

[briancnorton]

Well, I'm 100% sure (the highest accuracy possible) that the universe is between 23.5 and Infinity years old. I mean seriously, it's great that their methods produced something usable, but a media grab with a sound bite like this is stupid.