Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: of nuclear fuel consumption in the cores 0 these stars The ages of the oldest known chemical elements are also approximately 15 billion years number that comes from radioactive dating techniques Workers ir laboratories have derived these age estimates from atomic and nuclear physics It is noteworthy that their results agree, at least approximately with the age that astronomers have derived by measuring cosmic expansion. Another theory the steady state theory, also succeeds in accounting for the expansion and homogeneity of the universe In 1946 three physicists in England Hoyle Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold proposed such cosmology in their theory the universe forever expanding and matter is created spontaneously to fill the voids As this material accumulates they suggested it forms new star ...