how old is the universe?

Answer 1

they think near15billion years
john

Answer 2

Until recently, astronomers estimated that the Big Bang occurred between 12 and 14 billion years ago. To put this in perspective, the Solar System is thought to be 4.5 billion years old and humans have existed as a species for a few million years. Astronomers estimate the age of the universe in two ways: 1) by looking for the oldest stars; and 2) by measuring the rate of expansion of the universe and extrapolating back to the Big Bang; just as crime detectives can trace the origin of a bullet from the holes in a wall.

Answer 3

The best answer that scientists and astronomers have come up with so far is that the Universe contains objects which have been dated at 13 to 14 Billion Years Old. However, we
canot "see" everything in the Universe, so it is entirely possible that older things exist far out of our viewing capability.

At this time Astronomers can see objects in deep space that are about 13 Billion Light Years away in all directions from Earth. That limitation is the actual point where our optical equipement begins to fail and cannot deliver any useful information to us. That is not the end of space...we just can't see any farther (deeper) into it. Radio Astronomers can reportedly see or "detect" things at distances of 40 Billion Light Years. Possibly more things will be revealed when our optical abilities catch up with our radio detection capabilities.

Answer 4

The age of the universe, in physics, is the time elapsed between the Big Bang and the present day. Current observations suggest that this is about 13.7 billion years, with an uncertainty of about 200 million years.

Answer 5

I think the Big Bang theory claims it is around 13-15 billion years old, but i have heard estimates as young as 8 billion years old. However, i personally believe it has always been here, but that the number of finite intervals since the beginning is countably infinite rather than uncountably infinite.

Answer 6

the Universe is at least 15 billion years old, but probably not more than 20 billion years old.

Answer 7

About 13.7 billion years.

God doesn't exist but if He had you must realize that time didn't start until the beginning of our Universe so He'd have to be 13.7 billion years old as of now unless we consider that He is omnipresent and sees our Universe from beginning to end and therefore age and time wouldn't be relevant.

Answer 8

from the dawn of time if you start right from the beginning (all matter at one point)
and about 13-14 billion yrs if you take from the big bang as the beginning of the universe

Answer 9

I dont believe that anyone can actually make an accurate prediction on the age of our universe because it is vast I think its been around longer than 14 billion

Answer 10

6000 years old, in my opinion.

Noone knows for sure, since noone was around to see it.
All ideas about the past are based on philosophical assumptions.

Contrary to popular opinion, the big bang is really a philosophical idea based on the notion that God does not exist. Evolutionists try to interpret the evidence to fit in with the ideas of the big bang. With mixed success.

The evidence can also be interpreted to fit into recent creation.

The evidence does not demand an evolutionary billions of yeras interpretation.

In fact we do know what happened in the begining, because there was one eye-witness, and He has told us quite a lot about how he created the universe - in the Bible. And also why he created it - which is equally important!

Answer 11

It is there forever

However the stars and galxies system we know started around 14.6 billion years ago. There copuld be other galxies older this cluster much further away lik 100 billion light years away then we wont be knowing it