Imagine being the universe and waking up one day to find you’re 80 million years older than you thought. Or, worse, to find the whole world now knows you’re so much older than you’ve been letting on.
That has to be an awkward moment even for a cosmos that’s seen, well, everything in its 13.81 billion years of existence...
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