Cosmologists have found galaxies that are said to be too old to exist. Why isn’t this simply evidence that the universe is older than we think?

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Cosmologists have found galaxies that are said to be too old to exist. Why isn’t this simply evidence that the universe is older than we think?

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I swear that “dark matter” and “dark energy” will be looked upon by humans 400 years from now, much like we think of “epicycles” and “seven crystal celestial spheres”. “aww, they were cute, trying to ‘splain it all” *noogie*