THE MALTA COSMOLOGY TEMPLATE

Chapter 02 - Moment Zero 

PARTS

Part 0205 - The age of the Universe

ARGUMENT 0205-01

• CURRENT PARADIGM:     The age of the Universe is the time elapsed since the Big Bang. The current measurement of the age of the universe is 13.799±0.021 billion years ((13.799±0.021)×10⁹ years) within the Lambda-CDM concordance model. The uncertainty of 21 million years has been obtained by the agreement of a number of scientific research projects, such as microwave background radiation measurements by the Planck satellite, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and other probes. Measurements of the cosmic background radiation give the cooling time of the universe since the Big Bang, and measurements of the expansion rate of the universe can be used to calculate its approximate age by extrapolating backwards in time. (Wikipedia - 05 Apr 2016)

• 0204-01:   That at Moment Zero the Universe is 100% dense and its energy is 100% kineticenergy.
  0204-02:   That at Moment Zero, because the Universe is 100% dense and its energy is 100% kineticenergy, it must expand.

• Consider that the Universe began its current expansion phase at Moment Zero.
• Consider that Moment Zero is a more exact way of describing the Big Bang.
• Consider that a current best estimate for the time elapsed since Moment Zero is 13.75 billion years approximately. 

• Until a better estimate is made, assume the Universe began its current expansion phase 13.75 billion years ago.

• That Moment Zero was 13.75 billion years ago.