A radical alternative to the standard picture of the cosmos is gaining attention after researchers at the University of Ottawa reported that it successfully matched several important astronomical observations. The model suggests that the Universe could be 26.7 billion years old, nearly twice the widely accepted age of 13.8 billion years, and that neither dark matter nor dark energy is needed to explain its behavior. If further research supports these findings, the theory could offer a very different explanation for how the Universe evolved. It may also help resolve one…
