>>>>>There appears to be quite a concensus amongst the scientific community in this regard. What I have read appears to make sense to me as a layman. <
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>>>>I think 13.7 billion is the current estimate, but it could be anywhere between 10 and 20 billion.
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>>>>http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html
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>>>Thats what I have read. Its old :)
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>>What happen to 4.5 Billions? Now they estimate 14 billion?
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>I see. Age of the universe is about 14 billion they estimate.

Which is total nonsense as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime they make a bigger telescope, they realize the Universe is bigger and older than they thought.

They keep playing with their own little observable Universe and creating laws for that instead of taking the common sense position that the observable Universe is not equal to the Universe. So everytime there is a break through in making observations their Universe surprises them.

How can it be surprise? Sheesh.

Then again, I think Big Bang Cosmology is bunk, so I'm sort of cranky towards the whole idea of determining the size, age, and beginning of the Universe.