Astronomy News - Cosmos 'A Billion Years Older'
Thursday May 20, 2004
According to Luna - the Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics - located beneath Gran Sasso mountain in Italy, the Universe could be a billion years older than was previously thought. BBC NEWS reports that German and Italian scientists working for LUNA plan to publish these findings in the journal Physics Review Letters.
"Measurements made in an underground laboratory suggest an atomic reaction that produces energy inside stars is slower than was believed.
"It means that estimates of stellar lifetimes are too short. A readjustment gives the Universe an age of 14.7 instead of 13.7 billion years."
"Measurements made in an underground laboratory suggest an atomic reaction that produces energy inside stars is slower than was believed.
"It means that estimates of stellar lifetimes are too short. A readjustment gives the Universe an age of 14.7 instead of 13.7 billion years."