Sentences with phrase «flat universe»

Inflation naturally predicts a very nearly flat universe.

However, for many years, it has been evident that there is less than half of the amount of matter in the universe to account for a flat universe.

A Big Bang model in which there was just enough matter to equal the critical density to account for a flat universe would have provided that.

How finely tuned must this energy density be to get a flat universe?

The supernovae studies demonstrated that there was an energy density to the universe (but did not define the size of this energy density), and the recent Boomerang study demonstrated that this energy density is exactly what one would expect to get a flat universe.

While it seems a consensus is that we are in a flat universe that won't contract, we just aren't sure.

A preview of the data from the balloon mission, presented at a recent meeting on cosmology, hints that the new, sharper view of the ripples will provide even more evidence of a flat universe, created by an extraordinarily fast inflation of space within a fraction of a second after the big bang.

For now, says astrophysicist Rocky Kolb of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, BOOMERANG «certainly seems to show that we live in a flat universe.»

That was the first time you started to see the data pull away from a flat universe, and it was suggestive.

Now Grumiller and colleagues from India and Japan have published an article in the journal Physical Review Letters, confirming the validity of the correspondence principle in a flat universe.