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The Age Of The Universe

After several debates, astronomers have determined the age of the universe by using a Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. By examining the microwave background radiation that WMAP provided, astronomers were able to pin down the age of the universe, accurate to 1%, to 13.7 billion years old.

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Wah.... so high tec.

HAHA at 12:50AM, Mar 30th 2008.

You say the universe is 13.7 billion light years old (BLYO). Then why is the size of the universe 176 BLYO which means edge of the universe is 78 BLYO. If, as you say, the universe is only 13.7 BLYO then where did the extra time distance come from? Creation is not repeatable. The question is not how old is the universe. The question is how did God get light here in 6,000 earth years. Is Transient Light constant? Measured in Cosmic Local Time or Cosmic Universal Time.

Regarding WMAP:
Cosmologists now regularly take data from very different experiments and combine them into a single result, though press results rarely discuss the input of the disparate data. An example of this was the February 2003 announcement of the latest 13.7 billion year age estimate of the universe, along with estimates of the percentages of mass distributed amongst lighted and dark matter and “dark energy.” Also left unsaid is how extremely model-dependent the conclusions are. That is, if we change the model slightly, the conclusions change as well. The recent claim of the discovery of evidence for inflation builds upon the earlier WMAP work, among others, and, like the others, is very model-dependent. For instance, how the observed E-mode polarization constrains the amount of inflation energy is model-dependent. The model dependence amounts to a type of circular reasoning—cosmologists interpret the data assuming inflation, and then used the data to support inflation.

Brian Puetz at 09:13PM, Aug 6th 2008.

It didnt say the universe was 13 billion "light" years old. The term 'Light Year' does not represent a Time frame. it represents a distance. A light year is the distance it takes light to travel in one year (approximately 5,874,589,152,000 miles)

kalvin at 04:15PM, Aug 12th 2008.

Here's a thought starter...So far, cosmologists can only see as far as thirteen billion light years. After that, they can't see anything. Is that the "end" of the universe? Or is the universe really infinite?
And just exactly how small does all this size and distance discussion make you?

Mike at 01:40PM, Mar 15th 2009.

This isn't fact, it's still just a theory; a (poorly educated) guess.
There has been plenty of people who can validate their reasons for what they believe to be the age of the universe.

Fossils are the perfect example for explaining this. Fossils only say 2 things - "It existed and died" The age of fossils are guessed too. Carbon Dating doesn't work. Radioisotope decay tests doesn't work. And when they date the fossils by the strata layers, little do people know that strata layers are dated by the fossils (Circular Reasoning)

Zozano at 08:08PM, Mar 22nd 2009.

Brian Puetz Galileo once said, science takes the place of religion. So when ur in a discussion about science keep ur god out of it.

Dayvid at 02:03PM, Jul 12th 2009.

Yeah I think we can only see so far, so we think its 13 bill years old. But could be farther!

kenji at 04:00AM, Jul 15th 2009.

You all make a great thinking conversation.. and it will go on for the rest of our lives. The only way you or any body else will find out is when we die. That is even if there is life after death. If not we will never know.