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New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
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New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed::Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

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[–] Ultraviolet 1 points 1 year ago

Double that is still weird. If the heat death of the universe is 10^100 years out or more, we're incredibly early whether it's 13 billion or 26 billion. That leads to one possible explanation for the Fermi paradox, the universe will have countless civilizations rise and fall over the eons, we're just one of the first, if not the first.

Granted that's just a thought that came to mind under the influence of an unexpectedly strong edible rather than actual scientific research, but it's still neat.