The Age of the Universe

1995/06/05 by Sidney van den Bergh, Bergh, Sidney van den
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9506027

20 pages including 1 figure, uuencoded Postscript Also available at http://www.dao.nrc.ca/DAO/SCIENCE/science.html

arxiv created 1995/06/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

It is found that the ages of the most metal-poor Galactic globular clusters are probably around 18 Gyr. On the other hand a Hubble parameter of 82 +/- 8 km/sec/Mpc (in conjunction with the standard Einstein-de Sitter model with an Omega =1 and Lambda =0) yields and age of the Universe of about 8 Gyr. Some possible reasons for this discrepancy are explored.

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