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Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected
Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New
estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Yousuf Khan SPACE.com -- Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_revise.html |
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Yousuf Khan wrote:
Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Yousuf Khan SPACE.com -- Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_revise.html I wouldn't count your chickens just yet Yousuf, as there are many Cepheid variable in a whole lot of galaxies studied by the Hubble ST that say otherwise. |
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"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Which theories need to be dismantled by changing the age of the universe by 2x10^10 years and making it 2x10^11 light years bigger? |
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"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message ... | Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New | estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. | | This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing | theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a | fraction of the universe as it is. | | Yousuf Khan Nah... Ptolemy's theory of the Earth being at the universe's centre lasted for 1400 years, We'll have to wait another 1300 years before we can start dismantling anything. Androcles | | SPACE.com -- Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected | http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_revise.html |
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Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected
In article , Yousuf Khan
wrote: Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Welcome to science, where we welcome corrections and admit we only use models. The only person I can see knowing nothing in this case is you. -- Relf's Law = "Bull**** repeated to the limit of infinity asymptotically approaches the odour of roses." -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected
Yousuf Khan wrote: Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Yousuf Khan SPACE.com -- Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_revise.html Totally dismantling? Don't be so sure of yourself. If you're lucky, it might provide a slight modification of the right hand side of the Einstein equations for Cosmology, but that's about it. And that's assuming it even holds up. |
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Yousuf Khan writes: SPACE.com -- Universe Might be Bigger and Older than Expected http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_revise.html The preprint is at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0606279 I haven't read the paper yet, but the stated uncertainty on the new distance is 6%. M33 isn't a major calibrator of the distance scale, so increasing its distance would not translate directly into an increase of all other distances. -- Steve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Cambridge, MA 02138 USA (Please email your reply if you want to be sure I see it; include a valid Reply-To address to receive an acknowledgement. Commercial email may be sent to your ISP.) |
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Phineas T PuddleDuck wrote in
: In article , Yousuf Khan wrote: Current estimates are it is 13.7B yo, and 156B ly in diameter. New estimates would make it 15.8B yo, and 180B ly in diameter. This is probably the first steps to totally dismantling existing theories and admit that we know nothing because we can only see a fraction of the universe as it is. Welcome to science, where we welcome corrections and admit we only use models. The only person I can see knowing nothing in this case is you. It is utter ******** and should be rejected by the referees. M33 is a bound member of the local group. If they applied the same measurements to M31 you would get a negative Hubble constant. Klazmon. |
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Llanzlan Klazmon wrote:
It is utter ******** and should be rejected by the referees. M33 is a bound member of the local group. If they applied the same measurements to M31 you would get a negative Hubble constant. So? Spatial expansion doesn't apply to the local group? The article clearly stated that the with this M33 is actually further away than previously thought. Yousuf Khan |
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