[Hunble]

How old is the universe? Depends on the rate that time was flowing back then.......

Cute!

To measure something, it must be compared to a standard. If you are not willing to consider the flow of time as a standard, then was is your suggested alternative?

The wavelength or frequency of the light emitted my a Hydrogen atom can be measured by time or by length. What standard would you consider the most appropriate?

Please be consistent with your answer and fully understand the implications that it may have.

[Psalm 73]

I had used Dr Bunkers' own words:
....."Another exciting possibility is that physics was very different in the early Universe; our understanding of the recipe stars obey when they form is flawed."

I am not parsing words here, merely commenting on HIS own words as HE was entertaining the possibility of no baseline standards for the laws of physics.
Sooo, what is your problem with my comment?

[Buggman]

If you are not willing to consider the flow of time as a standard, then was is your suggested alternative?

But the flow of time isn't really a standard; it varies from place-to-place and object-to-object depending on the local gravity, mass, and velocity.

Mind you, that by itself doesn't exactly get the universe down to 6000 years, but it still begs the question: When scientists say the universe is 13+ billion years old, which part of it are they referring to?

[itsahoot]

How about this?