Cosmos 'a billion years older'

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By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor


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The Universe could be a billion years older than was thought, according to Italian and German scientists.

Measurements made in an underground laboratory suggest an atomic reaction that produces energy inside stars is slower than was believed.

It means that estimates of stellar lifetimes are too short. A readjustment gives the Universe an age of 14.7 instead of 13.7 billion years.

The results are to be published in the journal Physics Review Letters.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3732157.stm

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1. ..a billion here, a billion there.....

Not much difference..............

[phantom power]

2. yeah, but...

one day you wake up and look in the mirror, and you realize you're old...

[ewagner]

3. ROFLMAO!!!

That's true........wonder if they've found any grey hairs?

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4. or signs of a mid-life crisis...

Is the universe feeling overweight? Suffering a sense of existential ennui?

That's not the kind of universe I want to live in. Not that anybody asked me for permission.