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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. I've got a 100% accurate guess by gasgesgos · · Score: -1, Redundant

    hmmm, I can 100% accurately say that... GET READY FOR THIS...

    MORE THAN 100 YEARS OLD

    and...

    LESS THAN 400 TRILLION YEARS OLD

    anyone can just put up random numbers, there's still such a huge variance in the 2 "guesses" that it really doesn't mean anything. It's like saying that my computer runs at a clock speed of somewhere between 1 khz and 20 Thz.
    crazy scientists...

  2. Universe's Age by GrandTheftManual · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Man. Aren't 11.2 billion and 20 billion a bit far apart to be talking about 95% accuracy?????

  3. Kind of a big range by briancnorton · · Score: 0, Redundant

    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.

    --

    People who think they know everything really piss off those of us that actually do.

  4. Inaccurate? by haxor.dk · · Score: -1, Redundant

    From 11 to 20 billion years old... ahem... you couldn't get any more inaccurate than that?

    I mean, since i was ten, i was counting on a Age(u) of 15...