Scientists Find Universe Is 80 Million Years Older
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Scientists Find Universe Is 80 Million Years Older
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wir...4#.UUvVTxyTghI
A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate.
Sure, the universe suddenly seems to be showing its age, now calculated at 13.8 billion years 80 million years older than scientists had thought. It's got about 3 percent more girth technically it's more matter than mysterious dark energy and it is expanding about 3 percent more slowly.
But with all that comes the wisdom for humanity. Scientists seem to have gotten a good handle on the Big Bang and what happened just afterward, and may actually understand a bit more about the cosmic question of how we are where we are.
All from a baby picture of fossilized light and sound.
The snapshot from a European satellite had scientists from Paris to Washington celebrating a cosmic victory of knowledge Thursday basic precepts that go back all the way to Einstein and relativity.
The Planck space telescope mapped background radiation from the early universe now calculated at about 13.8 billion years old. The results bolstered a key theory called "inflation," which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its vast expanse in a fraction of a second just after the Big Bang that created the cosmos.
A new examination of what is essentially the universe's birth certificate allows astronomers to tweak the age, girth and speed of the cosmos, more secure in their knowledge of how it evolved, what it's made of and its ultimate fate.
Sure, the universe suddenly seems to be showing its age, now calculated at 13.8 billion years 80 million years older than scientists had thought. It's got about 3 percent more girth technically it's more matter than mysterious dark energy and it is expanding about 3 percent more slowly.
But with all that comes the wisdom for humanity. Scientists seem to have gotten a good handle on the Big Bang and what happened just afterward, and may actually understand a bit more about the cosmic question of how we are where we are.
All from a baby picture of fossilized light and sound.
The snapshot from a European satellite had scientists from Paris to Washington celebrating a cosmic victory of knowledge Thursday basic precepts that go back all the way to Einstein and relativity.
The Planck space telescope mapped background radiation from the early universe now calculated at about 13.8 billion years old. The results bolstered a key theory called "inflation," which says the universe burst from subatomic size to its vast expanse in a fraction of a second just after the Big Bang that created the cosmos.
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It's got about 3 percent more girth
Definitely a shower, not a grower.
Ahem. Pretty sure this is all null and void because everything is only like six thousand years old or something.
!! that was in high school. but i've had several hot college Professors, three were younger than me LOL!!!
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" i've had several hot college Professors, three were younger than me LOL!!! "
i hope your proud.
I think Time is changing slowly..
Thats why when ur out in space u age differently. the static noise u can see on a untuned tv. is the static noise from the big bang. i read it somwhere.
i hope your proud.
I think Time is changing slowly..
Thats why when ur out in space u age differently. the static noise u can see on a untuned tv. is the static noise from the big bang. i read it somwhere.