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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ElRengo · 70-79, M

There had been some other shocks along Science history that had less than deserved impact in the folk imagination while entailed stronger "philosophic" changes and opened the door to richer advances.
The Michelson-Morley experiment was one.
It challenged our more "basic" views on the physical nature of space itself without giving other answer than previous knowledge about was a philosophic bias.
The later answer was no less than Eisnstenian Relativity.

Of course, not a few scientists got now individually shocked.
But Science is scarcely related with individual thoughts.
And more about it´s object in itself than about our provisory knowledge about it.
And so it grows

SpaceJesus · 41-45

@ElRengo Nothing like a good mystery to keep the audience glued to their seats!

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@SpaceJesus
Oh, poor B. Russell got glued to his sits since Godel´s Theorem(s).
But some less careful others will look and comment at this you posted from a Popular Mechanic´s worldview.

SpaceJesus · 41-45

@ElRengo Popular Mechanic's, hey?

ElRengo · 70-79, M

@SpaceJesus
They´ll come. Wait and see....😄

SpaceJesus · 41-45

@ElRengo Hopefully they let me finish my breakfast first.