TY - BOOK AU - Weintraub,David Andrew TI - How old is the universe? SN - 0691147310 U1 - 523.1 PY - 2011/// CY - Princeton, N.J. PB - Princeton University Press KW - CosmologĂ­a KW - Tierra KW - Edad KW - Sistema solar N1 - Introduction : 13.7 billion years -- pt. 1. The age of objects in our solar system -- 4004 BCE -- Moon rocks and meteorites -- Defying gravity -- pt. 2. The ages of the oldest stars -- Stepping out -- Distances and light -- All stars are not the same -- Giant and dwarf stars -- Reading a Hertzsprung-Russell (H-R) diagram -- Mass -- Star clusters -- Mass matters -- White dwarfs and the age of the universe -- Ages of globular clusters and the age of the universe -- pt. 3. The age of the universe -- Cepheids -- An irregular system of globular clusters -- The Milky Way demoted -- The trouble with gravity -- The expanding universe -- The Hubble age of the universe -- The accelerating universe -- Dark matter -- Exotic dark matter -- Hot stuff -- Two kinds of trouble -- The WMAP map of the CMB and the age of the universe -- A consistent answer ER -