IS THAT SCIENCE OR HORSESHOES?

Universe Grows Younger By The Eon (Space Daily, Jan 09, 2003)

Cosmologists from Case Western Reserve University and Dartmouth College have continued efforts to refine the age of the universe by using new information from a variety of sources to calculate a new lower age limit that is 1.2 billion years higher than previous age limits.

The new information lends new support to the potential presence of a strange new form of energy that dominates approximately 95 percent of the universe and causes its expansion to accelerate.

In a paper published on January 3 in Science, Lawrence M. Krauss, the Ambrose Swasey Professor and chair of physics at Case Western Reserve University, and Brian Chaboyer of the department of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College establish that with 95 percent confidence the age of the universe is between 11.2 and 20 billion years old.

Their estimates were derived from updated information about clusters of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy and refined parameter estimates for their star evolution.

Nice range, fellas. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 9, 2003 9:13 AM