Suppose that Hubble's constant were H0 = 36 km/s/Mly (which is not its actual value). What would the approximate age of the universe be in that case?

Express your answer in years to two significant figures.

I got 26. 95 and it was wrong

Respuesta :

With the Hubble's constant H₀, the estimated age of the universe would be:

T = 8,332,452,617.49 years.

How to get the age of the universe?

We know that the age of the universe is something near to the time the galaxies needed to reach their current distance:

T = D/V

And by Hubble's law, we know that:

V = H₀*D

Then we can write:

T = D/(H₀*D) = 1/H₀

So, we can say that the age of the universe is something near the inverse of Hubble's constant.

Then we have:

T = 1/(36 km/s*Mly) = (1/36)  s*Mly/km

Now we need to perform the correspondent change of units.

1 Mly = 1 million light-years

Such that:

1 ly = 9.461*10^12 km

Then 1 million light-years over km is equal to:

1 Mly/km = 1,000,000*(9.461*10^12 km)/km = 9.461*10^18

Then we can replace it:

T = (1/36) s*Mly/km = (1/36)*9.461*10^18 s

T = 2.628*10^17 s

This is the age in seconds, but we want it in years.

We know that:

1 year = 3.154*10^7 s

Then to change the units, we compute:

T = (2.628*10^17 s/3.154*10^7 s)* 1 yea

T = 8,332,452,617.49 years.

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