Despite the fact he's wrong anyway, he said 'earth', not 'universe'.Alasdair wrote:Supernova 1987 is a Supernova that we can use simple trigonometry to find is 168 K light years away. First the supernova lit up, then the gas rings around them lit up about 8 months later. Simple trig to figure out how many light years it is away. The cool thing about this is that it doesn't even depend on the speed of light
So how can there be light 168 K years old in a 6K year old universe?
EDIT: To make sure I don't look like an idiot, yes, I 'got' it :/