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Manegarm  Title: European Imperialist Good Guy
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Crackdoc posted:
I don't know about the Universe, BUT, the Earth must be at least 18 (15 in Sweden) because we are royally screwing it up!
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It's going to be very interesting if/when we discover that time is elastic. Otherwise since I have no real idea of how old they are, I would have to parrot the numbers published by current main stream science.
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Urk_VN  Title: Orderly Randomizer
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Registered: 2002-10-30 17:31:32
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The problem with determining the exact age of the universe is that we don't know where it ends and begins. So far all we've got to go on is that faint light/radiation from 13-15 billion years ago. It could be even longer, but we just don't have the technology to track it.
That said, I remember an episode of Dr. Michio Kaku's Sci-Fi Science show, where he talked about being able to create a new universe and creating a wormhole that could stay open long enough for you to go there. I think he said you had to heat up some matter about a trillion trillion times, then find a way to stabilize the wormhole which connects our universe with the new one long enough to send some data through that could reconstruct another "you" there (he said you couldn't physically go there yourself if I recall).
The interesting part was that when this new universe is created this way, it begins to expand massively, but at the same time goes into its own dimension separate from ours. It's sort of like WoW's phasing system, where multiple layers of the same map can be used in one area, and they're all independent of each other. Which sort of loosely describes the multiverse, aka parallel universe theory pretty well...
Another interesting question for me is, if the universe is 13-15 billion years old, and the Earth is only about 4.5 billion, were there other species throughout the universe that existed before the Earth did? Like what about a species whose star system existed a couple hundred million years, or even a few hundred thousand years, before ours? Assuming they didn't wipe themselves out, what kind of technology do they have? If you see how fast humanity's technology is progressing (for better or worse), I wonder what an alien species that's been around 200,000 years before ours is like and what they're doing...  |
Thugoneous Title: Watching Caliente, BRB.
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Registered: 2002-11-2 18:00:54
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I can't speak for anything before 1980.
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Koneg  Title: Evil Genius
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Registered: 2001-12-4 15:31:28
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illmyrin posted:
I think the universe and time started at the same time so, as old as time. Earth? Earth probably came together a few hundred trillion years ago.
Uh, bring that down at least an order of magnitude 
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Moe_Nox Title: In Moe We Trust
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Science has been upgrading some theories over the last few decades.
With the huble telescope and observing stages of a supernova for example, things have happened up to 100 times faster than predictions.
I think man has inherent need to claim something is older than it actually is.
Like the cute blond at the bar winking at you, and your mental focus on her large bajoobies rather than her braces.
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Sea_of_inK Posts: 488
Registered: 2004-10-18 12:57:37
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Old enough for me not to care even a little 
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eodoll Posts: 1,028
Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
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Scientists dont know crap about this stuff... Its all guesses.
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Scarne Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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imaloon1 posted:
However the science channel show on light said that the hubble deep field telescope pictures taken in 2004 went back 30 billion years and then he stated that that was nearly three times as old as the Earth...
That was likely talking about detecting something that was 30 billion light years away from Earth. Which is possible thanks to the expansion of space over time. 
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Bobvillas Posts: 643
Registered: 2008-11-19 12:56:18
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6000 years old.
Doesn't anyone read the bible?
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