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Re: Cosmic Balloon Application IV: Tethered Galaxy

07/14/2009 11:46 AM

Hi Roger,

Plenty of this sort in Relativity 4 Engineers, but here is a more colorful one.

This one is plotted for H0 = 71.9 km/s/Mpc, 26% matter and 74% vacuum energy components.

The present age is 13.66 Gy, with R = 100 Gly, which is an arbitrary scale for convenience. It is for a flat universe, where the actual radius should be infinite.

As you can see, it is not a very remarkable curve at all! Right at t=0.2 Gy, the slope is quite large (some 8:1), but only for a very short time.

-J

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