Or 13,700 Million. It's not a British Billion yet, still a few orders of magnitude to go. Not sure why I switched the 3 to a 4. Perils of the continuous advance of knowledge after one leaves school.
Thanks, Chris Austin-Lane Sent from a cell phone On Sep 24, 2012, at 12:52, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 >> >> > > > >
