Astronomers used a powerful telescope to measure radioactive elements thorium and uranium. They say the star, which is in our galaxy, is 13.2 billion years old. The Universe, according to most estimates, is 13.7 billion years old.
What was there before the Universe came into Being?
- The Big Bang
- Yahweh created the Universe in 4004 B.C.
- You pick 'em: Creation myths from around the world
- Conscious Creation: "Emotional power behind your expectations powers your expectations into physical reality." This theory is further subdivided into
- Universe As Multiverse: All-That-Is as nested fields of physical, subtle, and causal consciousness (exteriors).
- Self As Multidimensional: All-That-Is as nested Aspects (interiors).
- Involution/Evolution: All-That-Is as Primal Cause and Effect (causality).
- Ubik: We're all living in a Philip K. Dick novel