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am I the only one always quite surprised that the universe is 'only' 13 billion years old?
by Tycho 16y ago
am I the only one always quite surprised that the universe is 'only' 13 billion years old?
- kaffeinecoma 16y agoThat always struck me as odd too, since the Earth itself is ~4.5 billion years old. It just seems odd that our little planet has been around (in some fashion) for a significant portion of the lifetime of the universe.
- Zaak 16y agoIn addition to that, our solar system probably formed from the remains of one or more second-generation stars, so our planet has already been around longer than at least one of its "ancestors".
- yters 16y agoI believe Hindu cosmologies put our universe's lifespan on the order of trillions of years.