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So the universe is apparently older than previously thought...

I can imagine many astronomers having a crisis over this new-found knowledge, with their careers built around the original notion that things are only x billions of years old. I don't think it's a bad thing, really. Just gives us something new to study. Science must march on! Unless it is restrained by religious beliefs, that is. In which case, religion becomes the enemy. Pew pew!
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Northwest · M
This is not a new discovery. The article you linked to is a decade old.

In the world of Astronomy, the issue has never been settled and careers in this space, are built around researching the issue, not the assumption that the question of the age of the universe is set in stone. That's how you end up with different theories.

A decade ago, the suggestion was that the universe may be 100 Million years older than previously thought. More recent (within the past 3-4 years) observations, suggest it's possibly hundreds of millions of years younger than previously thought.

Expansion, represented by the Hubble constant, is calculated based on the age of the universe. More recent measurements, suggest a 67.6 Km/Sec/Megaparsec. Translation: A point in space, that's 1 megaparsec, or 3.26 M light years away, moves away at 67.6 Km/Sec. The Planck Sat team observed 67.4, both close to each other, and both slower than 74, which is inferred from the measurements of galaxies.

This will be an open research topic, for generations to come.
SpaceJesus · 41-45
@Northwest I saw the original article in my google feed. Aaaand thank you for your input, as I am clearly not an astronomer or a master of physics.