How old do you think the universe is?

Answer 1

In February, 2003 NASA through the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland announced that the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years give or take a hundred million years or so. There the matter rests for the moment. Goddard engineers get their data from the Wilkinson Anisotropy Probe, a new far reaching satellite that measures time and distance across space.

Answer 2

The universe as we know it today, or at least what we can see of it, was formed in the big bang. But the energy that started all that was already there, just in a different form. In fact there was never really a beginning as such. The idea that everything has to have a beginning and end is just a human concept that stems from our lifecycle of birth and death. Time and space don’t work like that. Time cannot have a beginning because there would have had to be a time before it began. Space can not have an end because what would you call the space beyond it? Energy is the same, it can’t be created or destroyed, only changed.

Time & Space are just infinite.

Answer 3

The first point is that history is similar to driving down a highway and looking back on the road you are driving upon, you can only see a limited distance.

Therefore we have to accept some authority to determine the answer, which means we have to have faith in either a scientific view which is subject to possible change or a scriptural answer dependant upon the chosen tradition of the individual.

In the Vedic tradition, for example, it is stated in the oldest literature on the planet, that the life span of this one universe, that is one out of an unlimited number of universes, is 311 trillion years of which 155 trillion years have passed, this being the exhaling of one singular breath of the creative expansion of a secondary expansion of the Supreme primary cause.

To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 4

Clair Pattterson began working on a project in 1948 to determine the age of the earth first at The University of Chicago and then at CalTech. He worked in a sterile lab, making precise measurements of the lead/uranium ratios in samples of old rock, it occured to him that meteorites are essentially left over building materials from the early days of the solar system. Measuring these wandering rocks you would have the age of the Earth.
Patterson announced a definitive age of 4,550 million years +/- 70 million years at a meeting in Wisconsin in 1953, a figure that has stood unchanged.

Answer 5

Judging from the expanse of the universe - around 10 billion years old

Answer 6

On the clock of time, mankind has existed since about 11.58 - so I calculate the age of the earth to be approximately 2 minutes short of one hour. I say this because time is man-made. The universe is timeless.

Answer 7

Why think of celebrating its birthday? According to the Know It Alls its around 13.7 billions yrs plus or minus 200 millions yrs. Either way its old.

Answer 8

That is an incredibly mind-boggling question. I would like to think that the universe has always been around but my mind cannot comprehend something that has always been around. The human mind is conditioned to imagine beginnings and ends. If the universe has not always been around, it really makes me wonder what was here before the universe...

*head explodes*

Answer 9

Current thinking is that it's about 13 and a half billion years old.

Answer 10

I'm a christian and I 100% believe the universe is billions of years old, as the different sciences have agreed upon.