On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 08:55:10AM +1100, Russell Standish wrote: > > Actually, according to Wikipedia: > > Though the universe might in theory have a longer history, the > International Astronomical Union [4] presently use "age of the > universe" to mean the duration of the Lambda-CDM expansion, or > equivalently the elapsed time since the Big Bang in the current > observable universe. > > > Lambda-CDM is apparently the most widely accepted model of how the > universe expanded since the big bang. I didn't realise the IAU has > defined an "age of the universe", but its anything but. > >
Hence I retract my crack about journalists.... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.