MDDM Ch. 75 The Projected Age of the Universe

[Dave Monroe]

"'Would have taken me the projected age of the
Universe.'" (M&D, Ch. 75, p. 735)

On the one hand ...

http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/publications/newsletters/lpib/lpib77/black77.html

http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/56/

http://www.mathsoft.com/mathcad/library/astronomy/

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni.html

And on the other ...

http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/faqs-youngearth.html

http://www.geraldschroeder.com/age.html

And in the meantime ...

1650: James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh
and Primate of All Ireland, painstakingly correlated
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy
writ, arriving at the date of creation: Sunday 23
October 4004 B.C. No error bars are needed when this
date is plotted on the graph, for Ussher considered it
exact to the day.

For several centuries thereafter one sees little
scientific discussion of the age of the universe,
partly because of lack of evidence and theory. But
people were pondering the question of the age of the
earth, and of course, the universe is very likely
older than the earth.

1760: Buffon (1707-88) estimated the earth's age to be
75,000 years by calculating its time of cooling from
the molten state.

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/cutting/ageuniv.htm

And see as well ...

http://www.ees.nmt.edu/Geol/classes/geol102/ussher.html

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