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pete_68 t1_j1djqrq wrote

"Calculating the age of the universe is accurate only if the assumptions built into the models being used to estimate it are also accurate. " - Wikipedia

So yeah assuming the model is accurate. But that's an assumption. Not a known.

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Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1ejm32 wrote

I assume you left out the rest of the paragraph because you don't know what Bayesian and Strong Priors means.

The inaccuracy is quantifiable if you do.

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pete_68 t1_j1ew9vg wrote

I assume, based on the arrogance and presumptuousness of your comment that you have a GUT all figured out and have reconciled the disparities in Hubble values.

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Alarmed_Economics_90 t1_j1exr11 wrote

That's called "a straw man" argument, with a bonus false dichotomy.

Pretending that we don't know anything because we don't know everything is a glaring indicator of ignorance - not only of the topic at hand, but more generally of a weak grasp of epistemology and argumentation.

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