Is the universe 26.7 billion years old?

A new study shows that the universe could be twice the known age. The study, based on the early galaxy data from the James Webb Space Telescope, proposes that the universe is actually 26.7 billion years old and that the light from these distant galaxies has been "tired" by its long journey through space. This would explain why the galaxies appear to be more massive than they should be. The study combines the century-old tired light hypothesis with the covarying coupling constant model to explain the nature of the galaxies discovered by Webb in the early universe. It is controversial, and other astronomers are not yet convinced that the universe is twice as old as we thought. However, if more evidence is found in favour of this new model, it could replace the currently accepted cosmology model and solve several astronomical problems. To watch the full episode on this study, check out the linked video.

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[mikehall]

When we build a bigger telescope, the age will double again...

[aarone]

And I didn't even send the universe a birthday card. 😢

[ManiacRacing]

This is exactly the kind of thing we expected from Webb. Every leap forward in telescopes has completely changed our view of the Universe forever. Imagine what the next generation will show us!

[stephaniehale]

Wow the Webb is really changing everything we know

[TheNoiseySpectator]

I always thought 13 or 14 billion years seemed a bit low.

[justmehere]

Our part of it is 26.7 billion years old. The universe itself, is eternal and has always been here. We just can't detect the light from further away.

[englewoodmusic]

20 YEARS FROM NOW: It's 139.4 billion years old.

And so on... and so on...

[conor]

During the initial expansion of the universe, space stretched infinitely faster than the speed of light. Gravity warps spacetime and the initial expansion was the greatest gravitational yeeting of space which literally stretched the light across the expanse. This means the universe could have began yesterday and we could see everything star we do today in its same position. It can happen in an instance. Scientists are so biased towards their big bang theory they place their bias in front of data instead of letting the data speak for itself

[aidawaswhere]

This would make some sense and would answer why one of the stars we've found is older than the universe itself.

[johnkruk]

Interesting development in our knowledge .

[marc-bsbj]

We just don't know how old the universe is. Why don't we just start from that premise. Every time we improve our ability to focus on what we can see, we realize that we have absolutely no idea how old it is, and the abyss of infinity only becomes more apparent.

[catdaddymeow]

Any studies or so called discoveries about the universe should be added with the phrase of “ as far as we could possibly know”.

[dananjaya.g]

Universe is eternal, .
life is eternal,
illusions or maya is eternal
- Shivism
We are part of Universe
Beyond Universe one spirit
One power becomes many
Everything is expression and manifestations of one divine source

Science explores a drop in ocean only, omniscient is there, knows everything,

[sharaddwivedi]

It's very simple.. No one or no machine can gauge the universe because it's infinite. And there is nothing like bigbang.. however, it doesn't mean that we should stop exploring.

[dwells]

Of course, the covariant coupling...why didn't I think of that? 😂

[leemugleston]

What's 13 billion years between friends? Now Pluto being one less planet in our solar system is something I can get my head around.

[Faintz]

universe might as well be unknown age cause everytime someone has a new theory on its age bro it might as well be infinite

[Agnt-uz]

It seems our estimation of the age of the universe will perpetually be revised as we develop farther reaching telescopes.

[Helm-wq]

Great. Now I've got to get new maps with all these new places on them.

[Dan__S]

Time is a dependent variable; it varies relative to velocity and mass. These measurements will never make sense until some equation that accounts for this and creates some kind of standardized time is produced that can describe time over the mass of the universe relative to its expansion and local gravity.