How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe?

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by wahern on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @09:19PM (#21278055)

It's also been described like a loaf of bread expanding, where stars are like raisins, except the loaf might be infinitely big. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe

But that's also somewhat misleading as it gives the impression that it's just interstellar space (reinforcing the non-scientific connotation of space) that inflates. At some point even atoms may not be able to hold together. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip Whether the Big Rip is true or not, it's useful as a supplemental illustration.

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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by Dylan16807 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @12:31AM (#21278926)

To be clear, the big rip is only if expansion gets massively faster. At the current rate, the disturbance on matter is ridiculously negligibly small.

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