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The age of the Universe should be calculable by independent methods with similar results. Previous calculations1,2 using nucleochronometers, globular clusters and dynamical measurements coupled with Friedmann models and nucleosynthesis constraints have given different values of the age. We report here a consistent age, TU, whose implications for the constituent mass density are very interesting and are affected by the existence of a third neutrino flavour, τ, and by allowing the possibility that neutrinos may have a non-zero rest mass.
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Symbalisty, E., Yang, J. & Schramm, D. Neutrinos and the age of the Universe. Nature 288, 143–145 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/288143a0
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