GoKawiiluOttawa physicist's model pegs universe's age at 26.7 billion years
Rajendra Gupta and Nikolaos Samaras at the University of Ottawa say their CCC+TL model, which alters assumptions about gravity and light rather than invoking dark matter or dark energy, estimates the universe's age at 26.7 billion years, roughly double the standard 13.8 billion-year figure. The model, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, reportedly matches observed hydrogen and helium abundances, historical expansion rates, and the orbital behavior of stars and gas in 175 galaxies without requiring dark matter.