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The universe has an age: 13.787 billion years, measured from the light it left behind.
The mechanism
A BEGINNING, MEASURED — the universe is not eternal; it has a first moment
How it was checked
- EvidenceT7 PRIMARY DOCUMENT / MEASUREMENT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- SourcesMEASUREMENT — Planck Collaboration, 2018 results VI: age 13.787 ± 0.020 Gyr
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