... a talk about the age of the universe, the previous speaker announcedsarcastically, “What you will hear next is all wrong.” And Sandage,hearing of how a rival group had generated a great deal ... world are now speculat-ing about what these parallel worlds may look like, what laws theymay obey, how they are born, and how they may eventually die.Perhaps these parallel worlds are barren, ... the infant universe. If the universe today is an eighty-year-old man, the COBE, and later the WMAP, pictures showed him as a newborn, less than a day old.) The reason the WMAP satellite can give...