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A Fallacy in Estimating the Age of the Universe

Authors: Xianming Meng

The James Webb space telescope reveals much earlier and bigger galaxies than we expected, indicating inadequacies in our current understanding of the universe. This paper reviews the current practice in estimating the age of the universe and uncovers a problem: the luminosity distance is incorrectly related to the proper distance. This mistake causes the underestimation of the comoving distance, and thus of the expansion and the age of the universe. By linking the luminosity distance to the light travel distance, this paper provides a rectified formula for estimating the age of the universe.

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