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But the age of the entire universe? I'm just not buying it.
Originally posted by Chrisfishenstein
reply to post by hp1229
13.8 billion years old huh? There is absolutely no way of telling this, NONE! The universe!! Think about that, the entire universe is 13.8 billion years old.....
We can barely get out of our own planets space, how in the hell are they to figure this? There isn't any way possible unless god himself wrote it down and told scientists.....
Just like the weight of the earth and so on......You can't put it on a scale, so the actual weight is a blind guess based on some math equations......Same as the age, it is a blind guess......There is absolutely no way possible to figure this out...We can spend the funding on crap like this on something that is much more useful in my humble opinion!
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by hp1229
But the age of the entire universe? I'm just not buying it.
I dont see why this is so unbelievable.
Since speed of light is finite, by looking further we also look into the past. And behold, what we see is that the universe contracts until it turns into a dense ball of superheated plasma approximately 13.8 bilion years ago. So far, all the calculations and observations except a few anomalies here and there agree with such scenario. It is simply not true that we dont know or cannot know how the universe got here or how old it is (in its present state at least, what happened at the singularity is still a mystery).