A Brief Pause For Some Perspective D . When we see our own times as but an instant on the face of the clock which is the universe in which we live, the trials and tribulations of our own lives pale into insignificance, and out of that thought, a confident ability can be cultivated to enable us to deal with the disruptions caused by an allegedly premature arrival of the future.
Scientists still have vastly different ideas over the approximate age of our universe.
During the last couple of decades, the range of considered consensus opinions has been from about 8 billion years to about 15 billion years. As I write this, the last estimate I read was around 11 billion years. Whatever the truth is, that is a very long time, unless you compare it to the age of the Earth and our Sun. The age of the Earth and the Sun is about 5 billion years each. 48 Geologists and archeologists have broken down the history of our planet into a series of eras, periods, epochs, and ages.