Nicolas Dauphas, an Assistant Professor in Geophysical Sciences at the Univeristy of Chicago has been experimenting with uraniumm/thorium clock and measuring the decay of each. His work has been hailed by others such as Thomas Rauscher, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Basel in Switzerland, as extremely inportant in "Age determinations (which) are crucial to a fundamental understanding of the universe."
The article states that, "Dauphas' method can now be used to tackle other mysteries of the cosmos that have remained unsolved for decades."
On a personal note...he calculated the age of the Milky Way to be 14.5 billion years old, give or take 2 billion yerars. The most recently known age of the Milky way was 12 billion years old. But, later in the article they say that the Big Bang occured 13.7 billion years ago. So who's right? Did the chicken or the egg come first? Can someone please help me with this?
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