Awatmath.1895 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Tue Mar 2 14:31:47 1982 Re: Quasar speculations If quasars are red shifted because they are so far way, just how old are they estimated to be? One one hand, they are at the outer fringe of the universe, and thus would be old since they were the first things to be thrown away from the bang, but on the other hand, the light we see left them many billion years ago. So just how old is what we see? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.