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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)indicate that there are 100-150 billion small end stars and 300+ billion other stars.
The consensus that I read said that as a result of the Big Bang, the universe and all galaxies within it are the same age. To state differently would imply belief in a model other than the Big Bang. Not that it matters to me, I am a novice, but I am no adherent of the Big Bang Theory, a lot of it does not make sense, for example, if there was an enormous burst of matter to form the universe 14 billion years ago, why is the universe still expanding and where is the energy for that expansion coming from? It may be possible that we are simply in a position in the universe where we see something as expansion that is not. I believe in another model of how the universe and galaxies formed and are forming, in that model galaxies of different ages would be a given. I also accept Hawkings theory of there being many universes.
I don't think the speed of light is a basal number, instead it is just one mark of many possible speeds, we just have to gain the knowledge to show that and take advantage of it.
Someone implied that I come at this from somewhat of a religious perspective, I don't, I believe that classical religion originated from minds trying to explain phenomena that they didn't understand at the time biblical, Talmudic or Koranic verse were written. I do believe that everything that we discover or invent already existed, we just did not know that before finding it.