BOSS: The Universe's Most Precise Measurement 128
Cazekiel writes "Observing the primordial sound waves created 30,000 years after the Big Bang, physicists on the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey have determined our universe's most precise measurements: 13.5 billion years old. The article detailing the study reports: '"We've made precision measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe five to seven billion years ago — the best measure yet of the size of anything outside the Milky Way," says David Schlegel of the Physics Division at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, BOSS's principal investigator. "We're pushing out to the distances when dark energy turned on, where we can start to do experiments to find out what's causing accelerating expansion."'"
Well (Score:1, Funny)
...like a boss.
Re:Slashdot brings you another unparseable summary (Score:2, Funny)
Obviously it's saying that no-one in the entire universe has ever measured anything to more than three significant figures.
Re:Unknown lamer: please re-read article (Score:5, Funny)
The Universe may be 13.75 billion years old, but it doesn't look a day over 13.5 billion. I wonder if it's had work done. Maybe some cosmic surgery to reduce those time-space stretch marks.