Re: How old is the universe?
Fascinating!
"In the shorter term, ESA is launching INTEGRAL, a gamma-ray-detecting satellite, in October 2002. It will observe exploding stars to study the formation of chemical elements and may explain the anomalous iron observations."
Yah, step one is to confirm the iron abundance measurements by independant means. Ballgame is another unrelated experiment yielding a vast age. CRASH! goes all the cosmology if that happens.
-philw (is that a paradigm shifting or a bogus result?)