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The Universe Is 13.73 Billion Years Old
CaptainCarrot writes "Phil Plait, aka The Bad Astronomer has summarized for his readers the new results released by NASA from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has been surveying the 3K microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang. Some of the most interesting results: The age of the universe is now known to unprecedented accuracy: 13.73 billion years old, +/- 120 million. Spacetime is flat to within a 2% error margin. And ordinary matter and energy account for only 4.62% of the universe's total. Plait's comment on the age result: 'Some people might say it doesn't look a day over 6000 years. They're wrong.'"
They forgot to take into account the time they did the experiment and the time they published the results.
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'Some people might say it doesn't look a day over 6000 years. They're wrong.'"
You NEVER tell a woman she looks older!!!
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There was a universe before I was born?
Well, I'm glad that's settled. Now let's see if they can figure out my mother-in-law's age.
"After about a microsecond, it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to form. Three minutes later (yes, just three minutes) it had cooled enough for protons and neutrons to stick together."
Is it a literal microsecond or a figurative one? You always have to question measurements of time in creation stories. Did they really mean a minute? Maybe that minute was 4 years long...
This would make a good bar bet - which is flatter, the universe, or Kansas?
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Do the math, the earth really is 6,000 god years x 2288333 1/3 human yr/god yr = 13.73 billion human years old!
It all fits, the answers were already right before your eyes in the good book. Who needs a scientician or "NASA" to tell us this when we already know it?!
My work here is dung.
Contrary to what the average slashbot living in their parents' basement thinks, there *is* hard scientific evidence that the Earth is only 6000 years old.
For example...
I wonder how many atheists will just pooh-pooh this evidence instead of actually trying to retort it.
And when you can get a ship traveling sufficient close to C for this to be the case, let us know.
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So... you've proved that Photons are Christian?
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what was there 13.74 billion years ago? There could not have been nothing, something had to exist. You cant be making something out of nothing at all... except love of course (rimshot).
Only if they've "seen the light".
I have this rowboat outside called the Poseidon. I drop a C compiler CD-ROM into the water next to it and I'm in a ship traveling close to C. Heck, I can travel close to C++ for that matter.
You're never going to see a Jewish person moving THAT fast...
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The universe was born on February 29 - so it's really just a bit over 3 billion years old.
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You can do the same experiment as many times as you want, but as long as you are using the same theoretical foundations, you won't get any closer to the actual result. The only way to judge that the results are accurate are to devise experiments capable of giving results similarly precise but which are founded on different, but accepted, principles. Sort of like how the various methods for dating fossils give similar results.
Still won't work. Those methods have also been validated by testing against multiple known samples - otherwise, you find yourself in a catch-22 in which you can't trust the alternate methods either. What you need to do is build a fusion reactor, create a bunch of new universes, warp into them at some future time, and measure their age. Then come back and tell me about it. Oh, and make sure you don't kill your dad or something in the process, or then you're really screwed.
Otherwise, we're all just pissing in the wind here.
Moreover, as out ion-beam reflection tests determined, it rests on 6 elephants, not 5 as we previously thought. :) /AD
Come on, don't show your bias; try to be Objective-C.
No, Photons have mass, they are Catholic.
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I remember when you were just knee high to a grasshopper. Now look at you, so big and 'universal'
(If at first you don't succeed, do it different next time!)
So which of Earth's many religions is the correct one with respect to the creation of the universe?
That would be The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Like all pain, suffering is a signal that something isn't right
I like Bill Hick's response to that argument.
"Well, God put fossils here to test our faith!"
"I think he put you here to test my faith, dude."
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Oh boy I can see it now, the universe is 17.79 billion years and should go thru puberty soon. Bad mood swings, voice changes, hair growing on funny places like Saturns rings, the M31 and M5 galaxies are both getting bigger,.....and those funny sensations.
..........FULL STOP.
That's what they said about the earth 400 years ago...
Just you wait, a few more centuries and everyone will realize the true shape is a spherically inverted multifaceted poly-dimensional plexoid of random size. Mark my word, you'll see.
And global-cooling deniers too! You're not a DENIER, *are you*? You can always tell zealots by the way they throw in jabs for their pet topic, even when it has nothing to do with the topic at hand.
I got the same feeling from the last line of the summary. It was a totally unnecessary jab.
Oh, and Microsoft sucks.
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Why couldn't it be 13.37 Billion years old? Almost a message from a greater power, I'd say...
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