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New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
submitted 1 year ago by FlyingSquid to c/science
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Give it 1-2 years before making a validity judgement on this

[โ€“] ikidd 4 points 1 year ago

But then it'll be 26,700,000,002 years old and we'll have to wait a couple more years to see if the new age estimate is valid.