Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by boeingUH60 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:09PM (#36714488)

I can’t even comprehend 26.7 billion years. That’s like the average American living 342 million lives over.

The current world superpower is barely 300 years. Imagine what could change in a thousand, then a million, then billion…mind-boggling!

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by tristanc on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:16PM (#36714600)

Woah, is this suggesting that the cumulative human-years experienced by current living US population will add up to the age of the entire universe?

Mind-boggled again!

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by eindiran on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:50PM (#36715031)

>>> 27600000000 / 332000000

83.13253012048193

According to google the current life expectancy (in 2020) is:

77.28 years

So a touch shy, but almost.

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by esun on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:56PM (#36717230)

and this <waves hands around> is all we have to show for it?

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by Koshkin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:32PM (#36714813)

A few minutes in, this video talks about billions of trillions of trillions years into the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by 7373737373 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:27PM (#36714739)

There are these two nice videos with the (apparently now outdated?) 13 billion years:

To Scale: TIME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOVvEbH2GC0

Timelapse of the entire Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBikbn5XJhg

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by konfusinomicon on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:46PM (#36714981)

if it wasn't for those pesky extinction level events that come about every now and then

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by Sharlin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:49PM (#36715024)

Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by shagie on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:52PM (#36715061)

Video version: https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA

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Re:Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as pr... by The_Colonel on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:50PM (#36715026)

Compare that to the size of the observable universe which is a sphere with a diameter of 5 x 10^23 kilometers.

Or to the number of stars in the observable universe - 200 x 10^21. One star / (roughly corresponding) solar system is unimaginably huge and then there's so many of them.

In comparison to some of these other measures, the age on the order of 10s of billion years seems actually surprisingly modest.

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