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SIR JAMES JEANS has recently pointed out1 that observations of binary stars indicate 1013 years as the order of age of the universe, while the recession of the nebulæ, indicated by their spectral shift, suggests an age of the order of 1010 years.
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J. H. Jeans, NATURE, 136, 432, Sept. 14, 1935.
J. A. Chalmers and B. Chalmers, Phil. Mag., 19, 436; 1935.
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CHALMERS, J., CHALMERS, B. Age of the Universe. Nature 136, 916 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136916b0
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