Chris, The correct age of the universe is 13.7 BILLION years...
Edgar On Sep 24, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Chris Austin-Lane wrote: > Slight nit pick: > > > The universe has only lasted about 14,700 million years; not million million > years yet. > > > Thanks, > > --Chris > [email protected] > +1-301-270-6524 > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 11:07 AM, William Rintala <[email protected]> > wrote: > sics. In geology we speak of hundreds of millions of years, just as Joe > might speak in terms of billions or million millions of years and even those > chunks of time are but an instant in eternity. Life on earth began 600 > million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs lasted less that 150 million > years. Humanity's earliest ancestors didn't show up until less that 5 million > years ago. The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago. The first domesticated > animals, 10,000 years ago. The first evidence of writing 4,000 years ago. > Each human life lasts but 100 years, that's 0.00000017th the span of all > life, 0.000000005th the span of the age of the known universe. We live on a > planet which seems significant yet 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside of our > Sun and that Sun is only a medium sized star in a universe of uncountable > stars (billions and billions according to Carl Sagan). From the furthest > known reaches of known space our sun could not be seen. > This is my perspective regarding Zen. First the concept of Infinite Time and > Space. Huge, beyond imaging. An infinite Infinity of Infinities is still > nothing. It is no time or space at all. Given that infinite space and > infinite time and given the demonstrated size and length of our physical > existence and percieving myself as th > > >
