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Sandage prefers to stick with measurements implying an age closer to 20 billion years. Why? He cites, among other items, his latest research into the age of great spherical clusters of stars in the halo of the Milky Way. He and Colleague Gustav Tammann found they are some 17 billion years old. Asks Sandage, with the laconic understatement of a debater who feels sure he has found the clinching argument: "Isn't it rather hard to have a universe younger than its oldest components...
...moving away from earth. Also, because of the general expansion of the universe, the velocity at which galaxies recede from the earth increases with their distance from it. Thus astronomers can determine a galaxy's distance by measuring its red shift. Sandage, working with Swiss Astronomer Gustav Tammann, used Mount Palomar's 200-in. telescope to measure the distances of nearby galaxies and compare them with the corresponding red shifts...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Tammann. On the Limits of the Solid State." Mr. P. W. Bridgman. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...
...PHYSICAL COLLOQUIUM. "Tammann. On the Limits of the Solid State." Mr. P. W. Bridgman. Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Room...