[Robert]

The WMAP Satellite

The WMAP was launched in 2001 and has provided a detailed picture of the early universe, with unprecedented precision, when it was 380,000 years old. The WMAP satellite has gien us a precise measurement of the age of the universe with a 1 percent accuracy. The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years.

References

More information can be found here.

[AntonioLao]

One of the objectives of the mission of the satellite named WMAP/NASA launched in June 30, 2001 was to measure the mass contribution from positive curvature of space-time as well as the contribution from the negative curvature. See http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/. What it found is that these contributions, within 2% accuracy of the measurements, exactly cancel each other. The clincher is that the universe is flat. From theoretical considerations it has been known for a long time that a particular solution of Einstein’s field equations of general relativity described a Euclidean four dimensional space-time flatness model. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_field_equations

Since the field equations are composed of 16 coupled hyperbolic-elliptic nonlinear partial differential equations, there exist an infinite number of solutions. There are models for varying degrees of positive curvature and negative curvature. However, the most interesting model is the one that describes a perfect balance between positive and negative yin-yang symmetry. Latest data gathered from WMAP/NASA measurements supported such a flat 4D universe. For some other contending models please consult: Weinberg, Steven, Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity, Wiley, New York, 1972, or see http://encarta.msn.com/media_461517872_761564398_-1_1/Models_of_the_Universe.html

[sillysally]

Originally Posted by Robert The WMAP Satellite The WMAP was launched in 2001 and has provided a detailed picture of the early universe, with unprecedented precision, when it was 380,000 years old. The WMAP satellite has gien us a precise measurement of the age of the universe with a 1 percent accuracy. The age of the universe is 13.7 billion years. More information can be found here. I'll be elaborating on this WMAP overview in the coming days. However, please feel free to comment.

Cool! We aren't growing perpendicular, we are growing sideways! They should measure that from another angle. Is it tilted at the same degree the earth is at it's axes? That can also let us know what degree the earth was in at it's beginning stage, what degree the universe is in, if it's the same then the earth is the same age. Does the sun have axes? We are huge and sideways! lol! Life is so fun!