Reply To: NIMBY FUD
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ikanreedAaronB wrote: http://rt.com/news/oldest-star-universe-discovery-889/
“Bond and his team calculated that the star is 13.9 billion years old. This actually places it beyond the time that the universe exists. The current estimate is that the Big Bang happened some 13.77 billion years ago. This is explained by an experimental error, which may be as large as 700 million years. So the star is at least 13.2 billion years old and may be several hundred million years older than that.”
It’s interesting that the calculated age of the star is older than the universe itself, and they adjust the margin of error to barely fit within the BB model.
That’s a bit misrepresentative of what the article says. If a method really has a 700 million year window, you’d expect 5% of cases to have even more error than that. I don’t think I need to point out just how many stars there are.