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To: DennisR
Maybe it's just me, but I see a lot of contradiction here.

Maybe it's me, but what I see is lots of potentially out-of-date estimates, and NO scholarly references to back them up.

If I were so inclined, I could put up a website that said the Universe is 13 days old, and it would have as much validity on your list as any other internet website estimate.

Also, you fail to note the error range for each estimate. As I pointed out earlier on this thread, 20 years ago, they thought the Universe was 10-20 billion years old (or 15 +/- 5 billion, if you prefer). Today, they think it is 13.7 +/- 0.5 billion years old. There's no contradiction; the later measurement lies entirely within the earlier estimate.

110 posted on 04/24/2002 9:37:11 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: longshadow
It seems that if they'd only found a dwarf that was too faint to be seen, the universe would be far older.
116 posted on 04/24/2002 9:47:40 PM PDT by apochromat
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