How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by amp108 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:49PM (#21276264)

> It's composition meant the star must have come into being before iron became commonplace.

Hypothesis 1: the star formed in a way that did not involve or produce a lot of iron.

Hypothesis 2: the star is older than the universe itself.

Clearly, hypothesis 2 is the more likely.

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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by hypothesis-3 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:58PM (#21276378)

Hypothesis 3: Due to inherently incomplete information, our understanding of the age of the universe is not yet perfectly correct, and the universe may be older than current models and theory.

Strap yourselves in folks, maybe The Big Bang is but one event woven amid a deeper tapestry of events, significant only in its capacity to occlude deeper periods of time.

It should surprise no one that we might be wrong about some centralized, focal aspect of the universe, given how wrong we've been before, about things we assumed to be the center or origin, previously.

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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by gpderetta on Thursday October 17, 2019 @03:22AM (#21279686)

3 our estimate of the age of the universe or of these stars need to be improved.

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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by Nohnce1 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @05:57PM (#21276366)

It's a hard sell to someone who has cursory interest on the subject had the title been your first hypothesis. Still, not great.

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