The age of this (and our) universe can be found from the following simple equation:
The units of Hubble constant are km/(s⋅Mpc).
1) Convert km to m: 1 km/(s⋅Mpc) is 1000 m/(s⋅Mpc).
2) Now convert Mpc-1 to pc-1
"\\frac{1000 m}{(s\u22c5Mpc)}=0.001 m\/(s\u22c5pc)"
3) 1000 m/(s⋅pc) is, therefore, equivalent to
"\\frac{0.001}{(3.086\u00d71016)} = 3.240\u00d710^{-20}S^{-1}"
Thus, the age of the universe is
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The age is about 14 billion years.
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