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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, all good marriages have a little flexibility in them, and so that means every month or two I get a chance to have an astronomer's night out away from the wife. |
| 0:08.0 | And just a couple nights ago, me and a bunch of other Chad stargazers went to an astronomy club, and we were sitting there having a couple beers, and we saw this galaxy. |
| 0:15.0 | And let me tell you folks, this was a knockout. |
| 0:17.0 | And I said, that is the finest looking thing I have seen in a long time. Baby, |
| 0:21.5 | you are gorgeous. And the galaxy said, you'll just never guess how old I am. And then it told me, |
| 0:26.7 | and I said, you look half that age, darling. You look absolutely half that age. 26 is the new 13, |
| 0:32.4 | ladies and gentlemen. And here's what all of this nonsense is all about. I'm Bill Whittle here with Steve Green and Scott Ott, and there has been a discovery made by the James Webb Telescope that is, in my opinion, knee-jerk |
| 0:42.3 | reaction to it, a very big deal. Here's the story. Right now we think that the universe, not |
| 0:49.9 | galaxies, the entire universe is about 13 billion years old, give or take a billion or two here or there. |
| 0:55.1 | What one of these astronomy researchers has discovered is that maybe this is not the case at all. |
| 1:00.7 | When you look really, really far back, you begin to see like these little acoustic waves, |
| 1:04.3 | and it's convinced him that light may be playing some very strange tricks with us at the very |
| 1:08.0 | border of the observable universe, and the short form of this |
| 1:11.2 | is, is that there is now a possibility that the universe is not 13 billion years old, it's |
| 1:17.0 | approximately 26 billion years old. |
| 1:19.4 | In other words, it's twice as old as we thought it was, and here's why I believe this |
| 1:24.1 | to be true. |
| 1:26.5 | We look out into the universe and we see the stars in the galaxies and the things that are visible to us, |
| 1:30.3 | and we can count that and we can see lanes of gas and dust, and we can estimate how much the mass of all of those things are. |
| 1:36.3 | We also know how fast we think the universe is expanding based on the Red Ship. |
| 1:40.3 | This is what Hubble discovered, and this is what led to the expanding Big Bang theory. Well, if it turns out |
| 1:46.6 | that the galaxy is twice as old, sorry, that the universe is twice as old as we think it is, |
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