The World's Oldest Things

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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People are fascinated by extremes. We are interested in the biggest, strongest, fastest, and tallest. I’m certainly no exception. One of the things I’ve been fascinated with is the past, and in particular, very old things. Things which have withstood the test of time. So, let’s learn more about the oldest things in the world, and even in the universe, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Travel By Design Podcast Enjoy first-hand stories from the creative minds behind some world’s most extraordinary hotels on the Travel by Design podcast. Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	People are fascinated by extremes. We're interested in the biggest, strongest, and tallest, and I'm certainly no exception.
0:07.5	One of the things I've been fascinated with is the past, and in particular very old things things which have
0:14.8	withstood the test of time. So let's learn more about the
0:18.6	oldest things in the world and even the universe on this episode of
0:22.2	everything everywhere daily. and even the universe on this there is, the universe.
0:45.2	In a previous episode I discussed the age of the universe and how it's been determined.
0:49.2	They've used the Hubble constant to determine the age of the universe, and the current estimate is that it's
0:53.3	approximately 13.787 billion years old. As I've previously done an entire
0:59.9	episode explaining how the age of the universe is estimated, I'll refer you to that
1:03.6	episode if you want to know more about it. However, since I did that episode, new
1:08.6	discoveries have been made from the James Webb Telescope. It has discovered galaxies that are far older than
1:14.8	should be possible. They've observed galaxies that would have to have been formed
1:18.6	only 300 million years after the Big Bang, yet they display features that would have made the galaxy several billion years old.
1:26.4	There's a star in our galaxy known as HD 140283, also known as the Methusela Star. It's been dated to be older than the universe which obviously is impossible.
1:37.0	These discrepancies have caused some astrophysicist to challenge the accepted age for the universe,
1:42.0	and some of them are now
1:43.7	estimating that it might be as old as 26.7 billion years, almost twice as old
1:49.1	as we previously thought. This is going to be a very active field over the next several years as more and better
1:54.8	data is gathered from more and better astronomical instruments.
1:58.8	As we gather more data, better explanations will be required to explain the observations which should give us a more accurate
2:04.5	estimate of the age of the universe. In talking about old things, let's get a bit closer to home.
2:10.4	How old is the oldest rock in the world?
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