Comments on: The Universe is 13.73 +/- .12 billion years old!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:04:10 +0000

Very cool. Not to be a weiner, but the first paragraph refers to the big bang as the most distant [source of microwaves] there is. Assuming this is relative to Earth, that makes it sound as if the big bang was not a spherical event, but a planar(?) event. I have sort of been going with the spherical version: Am I totally off base?

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:36:42 +0000

wonder why care this much about the age of universe while our age is more or less 100 years and death comes all of the knowledge accumulated is take away! what’s the point then? or is there anything that can be taken by us after death? though we like to avoid, let us not be afraid of death otherwise, life has no meaning! just like light has none without the darkness!

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:51:18 +0000

Given that the stated age of the universe is 13.7 billion years old, what was before the beginning?

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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:33:20 +0000

[...] ages”, she means 6000 years. This belief in a young Earth, is, simply, dead wrong. We know the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the Earth, while younger than that, is still 4.55 or so billion years old itself. This is not [...]

By: Texas wrapup: Yup. Doomed. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Texas wrapup: Yup. Doomed. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:01:14 +0000

[...] ages", she means 6000 years. This belief in a young Earth, is, simply, dead wrong. We know the Universe is 13.7 billion years old, and the Earth, while younger than that, is still 4.55 or so billion years old itself. This is not [...]

By: Texas: From saved to doomed in just 6 hours! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:23:34 +0000

[...] Texas Board of Education creationist Barbara Cargill today proposed an amendment to the science standards saying that teachers have to tell their students there are different estimates for the age of the Universe. This is not even a veiled attempt to attack the Big Bang model of the Universe, which clearly, and through multiple lines of evidence, indicates the Universe is 13.7 +/- 0.12 billion years old. [...]

By: Wie alt ist das Universum?

Wie alt ist das Universum? — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:53:33 +0000

[...] und deshalb könnten wir hier jetzt Schluß machen. Aber zum Glück gibt es ja noch Astronomen und die NASA, die sich den ganzen Tag mit nichts anderem auseinandersetzen. Dank des dicken Budgets [...]