Astronomy's Best Kept Secret

Astronomers don't want you to know that there are stars older than the universe. The reason why contradicts their orthodoxy.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• astronomy
• secrets
• cosmology
• cosmos
• universe
• age
• horizon
• expansion
• Hubble

[Chaaazz2008]

If a galaxy that is older than the age of 13.7 billion years means we can't see it, then how can we see those stars he was talking about at the beginning that are much older? He kind of made his explanation turn on itself.

[ProfMichaelson]

@Chaaazz2008 Stars lie on both sides of the horizon, like the recently discovered quasar that is too young to have evolved that far.

[Chaaazz2008]

@ProfMichaelson Don't galaxies lie on both sides? Honestly I don't know. Just curious.

[ProfMichaelson]

@Chaaazz2008 Yes.

[RandallLord]

I cant find this issue at the website you listed in the description. They only list 2011 issues.

[ProfMichaelson]

@RandallLord They surely have a button someplace for back issues, although you might have to order them.

[ProfMichaelson]

@gsmonks As a matter of fact, before I retried I taught courses in physics. Some of my post-docs have gone on to distinguished careers. In a decade or so when astronomers have discovered even more active galaxies that are impossibly young, you'll understand that the universe must be older than you thought. But you'll never know why because you were taught what to think instead of how to think.

[ProfMichaelson]

@Offdaheez76 Except the Earth has geological features that are 4 billion years old. And not so intelligent the design if you know about all the flaws in the human body, which is why men get inguinal hernias, women get bladder infections, and everyone gets back aches.

[mannyindaclub]

The universe isn't roughly 14 billion years old, it's AT LEAST 14 billion years old. We can't see beyond that because of the "event horizon"; we already know that, it's no secret.

[RyanB747]

@ProfMichaelson Haha, thank you for your compliment! But I'm not intelligent, just logical :)

[ProfMichaelson]

@RyanB747 You sound intelligent to us.

[RyanB747]

Hmm, I like your thinking! But I shall remain a skeptic, as I am about most logical things. I am no astronomer (or at least not yet!) so I shall leave an intelligent conclusion to an intelligent person.