Big bang pushed back two billion years

[Mr. McD]

Our universe may be 15% larger and older than we thought, according to new measurements of the distance to a nearby galaxy.

Researchers led by Alceste Bonanos at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, US, used data from telescopes including the 10-metre Keck-II telescope in Hawaii, US, to measure the distance to a pair of stars in the Triangulum Galaxy.

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9676-big-bang-pushed-back-two-billion-years.html

[longship]

1. New measurement implies age could be 15.8 billion years

Just thought people might want to know the bottom line.

[CrispyQ]

2. Let's see . . .

6,000 or 15.8 billion?

;)

[bikeboy]

3. I guess that means raptures already come and gone...eh

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. Looking at history

the rapture has come and gone several times, like the Aztec and others(I'm not quite awake yet).

I'm looking forward to a Western digital Rapture next year in new PC :D

[Cobalt-60]

6. Perhaps God hit the snooze bar between universes

[Vincardog]

4. They use a constant for expansion rate and thus age. The expansion is

accelerating. Doesn't that do something to their calculation?