Or that we know very little about the "true" nature of the Universe. Theory should match observation, I suspect a few thesis needed to defend why their observations did not match current theory. --- chuck.hards@gmail.com wrote: From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] White dwarfs and YOU Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:40:57 -0700 Erik, read my last post. You are assuming that stars that evolve into white dwarfs formed from the universe's first poplulation of stars. I'm not so sure. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:38 PM, <zaurak@digis.net> wrote:

That was what the professor form Ohio States' Astronomy Department stated. Again I am no Phd, but Perhaps the idea that the Universe is 13.5 billion years old needs rethinking or perhaps that it takes 13 billion years for white dwarfs to exhaust themselves, I read mention that in some cases it takes 2 billion.

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