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Article: UNIVERSE FOUND TO BE 1 BILLION YEARS OLDER
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- May 20, 2004
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United Press International
05-20-2004
Universe found to be 1 billion years older
GRAN SASSO, Italy, May 20, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Italian and German scientists said the universe could be 1 billion years older than previously thought.
Measurements made at Italy's Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics, or LUNA, suggest an atomic reaction that produces energy inside stars is slower than earlier calculations had indicated, BBC News Online reported Thursday.
It means estimates of stellar lifetimes are too short. A readjustment gives the universe an age of 14.7 billion years old instead of 13.7 billion years.
In LUNA, scientists from the Italian Institute of ...