Posted on 09/13/2019 6:47:13 AM PDT by Phlap
The universe is looking younger every day, it seems.
New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate, and even younger than suggested by two other calculations published this year that trimmed hundreds of millions of years from the age of the cosmos.
The huge swings in scientists' estimates — even this new calculation could be off by billions of years — reflect different approaches to the tricky problem of figuring the universe's real age.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
I thought the science was settled?
OMG!!!!!! That changes everything!!!!!!
What are we gonna do??????
I am just like a goose. I wake up in a new world every day.
f it’s 2 billion years younger,t hen global warming must be even faster than we thought!
And that means what to me, Farmer John? (Vague Men In Black reference)
How about "younger than the settled science has told us?
This is so classic. Japanese Americans interned by Roosevelt are our shame, Americas shame, not Roosevelt's shame.
Whenever their side gets caught behind the eight ball, it's everyone's fault.
Oh, you mean instead of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 years old, it is only 9,000,000,008,000,000,000 years old. Gottcha.
So now we have stars older than the universe again. Oh goody.
Of course, there’s only one answer to this disastrous discovery - World Totalitarian Government!!!!!! Just ask any Leftist.
The article is contradictory, younger but “maybe” older?
“Jee and outside experts had big caveats for her number. She used only two gravitational lenses, which were all that were available, and so her margin of error is so large that it’s possible the universe could be older than calculated, not dramatically younger.”
“It is difficult to be certain of your conclusions if you use a ruler that you don’t fully understand,”
Does she or doesn’t she?
Only her cosmologist knows for sure...
So.... does that mean Globull Warming now, or cooling? Just wondering..
Scientists are sooooooo vain.
They need to cut the universe in half and count the rings.
So...we’re now on Celestial Daylight Savings Time?
Down to 11.2 billion? The young earth creationists are probably popping the champagne. 2 billion years gone. Another 11,999,993,000 to go and they can declare victory!
The universe may be 2 billion years younger than we think.
Oh, great. That’s 2 billion less candles we have to buy for the birthday cake.
Does anyone really give a sh**t?
What a relief.
It was getting harder and harder to setup and light the birthday candles.
This year, will be so much easier to fit 2 billion less candles on the cake.
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