Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed::Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”

  • hungry_freaks_daddy@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    1 year ago

    I’m not surprised at all honestly

    It sounds insane to say, but 13.4 or whatever felt way too young

      • DocMcStuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Okay, but the universe and our galaxy is really friggin’ big. There very well could be other life out there, but is it intelligent enough to build spaceships? Perhaps. Has it figured out how to traverse the galaxy in a reasonable amount of time? I have doubts about that. Then what’s the chance it would came across our own solar system? Pretty slim.

      • vimdiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like the hypothesis that any civilization that gets close to entering a space based civilization ultimately destroys itself like we are currently doing even though we basically have a solution in the form of humanistic philosophy and nuclear power for clean energy

    • vimdiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      “Feels” and “common sense”means little in science unless you have a mathematical or logical reason why you feel that way. I’ve seen far too many metaphysical theories try to be taken seriously to not point out that “feels” is useless, observation and math are what matter

      • hungry_freaks_daddy@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        And yet, some of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time were made based on people’s feelings and intuition. Fucking shocker I know right. I’ll bet you’re fun at parties.

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Double that is still weird. If the heat death of the universe is 10^100 years out or more, we’re incredibly early whether it’s 13 billion or 26 billion. That leads to one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox, the universe will have countless civilizations rise and fall over the eons, we’re just one of the first, if not the first.

      Granted that’s just a thought that came to mind under the influence of an unexpectedly strong edible rather than actual scientific research, but it’s still neat.