From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk   
      
   On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 01:12:06 -0600, personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk wrote:   
      
   > it's quite possible the universe is a LOT older than we think it is (as   
   > light-based physics only work for 14 billion years distance) and the rest we   
   > *can't* see is too far away and traveling at too great a speed to detect!   
      
   There are a number of techniques used to age the universe - and they all   
   give roughly similar figues.   
      
   The "stuff we can't see" is considered to be outside the "Hubble   
   Universe"; which is the subset of the, possibly greater, universe that   
   will never have any effect on us, since we can't interact with it.   
      
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