The Age of the Universe
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is found that the ages of the most metal-poor Galactic globular clusters are probably around 18 Gyr. On the other hand a Hubble parameter of 82 +/- 8 km/sec/Mpc (in conjunction with the standard Einstein-de Sitter model with an Omega =1 and Lambda =0) yields and age of the Universe of about 8 Gyr. Some possible reasons for this discrepancy are explored.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9506027,
title = {The Age of the Universe},
author = {Sidney van den Bergh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9506027},
year = {2007}
}
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20 pages including 1 figure, uuencoded Postscript Also available at http://www.dao.nrc.ca/DAO/SCIENCE/science.html