2007-09-09 07:59:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Eric you understood me perfectly. Are there any children older than their parents? Astronomers are perplexed that there are some galaxies 6 billion years older than the Universe. A mystery. I am wondering if others knew more?
2007-09-09 08:36:01 · update #1
To Eric- In fact the scientist used your same anology. Its like a child coming up to the parent except the child is older than the parent.
2007-09-09 08:38:07 · update #2
I haven't heard of any galaxies considered that old, but for a while the estimated ages of some globular clusters were older than the estimated age of the universe. This was a clear indication that some of the theory was in error. Since then cosmologists have agreed on a more precise estimate of the time since the Big Bang, and astrophysicists have revised their computation of cluster ages, and the discrepancy no longer exists.
2007-09-09 08:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm remembering some astronomy ariticle I read decades ago. For a while the data on globular clusters: star clusters attached to galaxies and great distances, seemed to indicate that they were older than the current calculated age of the Universe. Obviously no body was happy with that result. The press loved it of course. I haven't heard about that particular problem in years, I assumed the astronomers solved that problem with some better data. That's not the sort of thing you shove under the carpet. Reputations can be made or lost on problems like that.
2007-09-09 09:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like asking if your mother has any children that are older than she is. There are no galaxies older than our Universe. All the galaxies are part of the universe .
2007-09-09 08:12:43 · answer #3 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you think of there's no existence everywhere else? The ordinary universe is fairly small, in assessment to what's obtainable that remains unknown to us, and that they have discovered data that there replaced into as quickly as water and microbes on Mars, feels like existence on yet another planet to me..... i don't think that existence on different planets unavoidably potential greater stepped forward existence nonetheless, in some places there'll be discovered greater stepped forward species, in others much less....
2016-11-14 19:14:30 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
everything is technically the same age. all matter was created at the same time, nothing can be older than the universe because the universe is all matter energy space and time, so the instant any of those came into existance so did the universe.
2007-09-09 08:09:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Galaxies are all IN our universe. We don't know of any other universes. But if you ask if there are other galaxies older than ours than the answer is yes.
2007-09-09 08:08:27 · answer #6 · answered by Aneena 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the universe is considered the base oof all existance. There are, however, older galaxies
2007-09-09 08:09:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anathema-Wrath 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe in the bing bang theory then no, but if you mean are their galaxies older then our galaxy then yes.
2007-09-09 08:07:21 · answer #8 · answered by krysteven 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For your support, I have heard something to that affect. I can't tell you much more. It is very strange. I think science does a lot more surmising than they'd like us to think. They don't know how to figure it all out. Who knows if the big bang was real? What does anyone know?
2007-09-09 09:24:48 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Bodhisattva 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it was so ,how did the Big Bang work???
2007-09-09 08:23:39 · answer #10 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋