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UO physicist tweaks age of universe with new approach – Mirage News
Next time there’s an argument about the age of the universe, just say it’s 12.6 billion years old and that University of Oregon physicist Jim Schombert…
Next time there’s an argument about the age of the universe, just say it’s 12.6 billion years old and that University of Oregon physicist Jim Schombert has the equation to back it up.
In a study published in the Astronomical Journal, Schombert and colleagues detailed how they used empirical data, in this case observable measurements on the distance from Earth of 50 galaxies, to tweak a 90-year-old computational tool called the Hubble constant to measure the expansion of the universe.
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