How old is the seeable universe & explain how you derive at your answer?

Question

I ask because i myself believe it is much older than scientists would have us believe. I base my belief on this. scientists say it is about 15-20 billions years old based on the fact that that is how long it has taken light to reach us from the farthest reaches that telescopes of any kind have been able to see. But if that is true then how about the time it took for the objects that are out that far whose light the telescopes are seeing took to get where they are at vastly slower speeds than their light we see takes getting back to our telescopes. I hope I have explained myself so that someone understands what it is I am trying to say

Answer 1

The speed of light is constant, so your comment about the light traveling at vastly slower speeds is incorrect. If you work out the amount of redshifting the light has, you can deduce the rough distance it has traveled. Light from the most distant objects is very strongly redshifted.

Also, measurements of the microwave background radiation correspond to an average age of about 14 billion years.

Answer 2

The model now in use has nothing to do with the universe. Its just a model that some people have more faith in than any model deserves-its like a cult of the model. The real universe can be seen only to a limit of 15 to 20 billion years because intergalatic gas and dust that distorts everything beyond 10 billion years or so. There ain't no way to know how big it is or how it got to be the way it is.

Answer 3

In a vacuum the speed of light is invariant.

The 15-20 billion year number comes not from the CMBR, but rather predominantly from measurements of nearby and distant galaxies, particularly their rates of expansion away from us. We find that the distance to a galaxy is proportional to its recessional velocity. The constant of proportionality is the Hubble Constant, H, which turns out to be (approximately) the reciprocal of the age of the universe. So we measure the age by measuring recessional velocities. T = 1/H

Answer 4

Time at the outskirt of the Universe appears longer relative to the Earth. So What appears to Human as a long time is really a very very short Time relative to our Creator's Heaven.
We cannot really talk about Time when we really do not
perceive the reality of Time.
As far as Big Bang and Creation theories about Time is only Scientific Conjecture and Speculation.
If some one tells you that there is positive Scientific proof how the Universe was created, is really talking out of the top of his hat.