Virtuality » universe http://idsvandermolen.com Real and virtual stuff from cyberspace Thu, 13 May 2010 21:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The age of the universe reveiled http://idsvandermolen.com/2008/03/06/the-age-of-the-universe-reveiled/ http://idsvandermolen.com/2008/03/06/the-age-of-the-universe-reveiled/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:50:22 +0000 Ids http://idsvandermolen.com/2008/03/06/the-age-of-the-universe-reveiled/ Finally! “She” has tried to conceal it for a long time, but now we know the universe is about 13.73 billion (+/- 120 milion) years old. Although Christopher Columbus might not agree, the universe also appears to be flat. Also the stuff we are made of (called “matter”) apparently is less than 5% of the whole universe. The other stuff in the universe is 72.1% dark energy and 23.3% dark matter, which we can’t even see or sense in any way…

I’m glad I know these details now thanks to the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe :-)

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