«In order to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding with the
standard cosmology, the
model in which there's a Big Bang, a mathematical function is used that depends only
on cosmological time,» said Neves, who elaborated the idea with Alberto Vazques Saa, a Full Professor at IMECC - UNICAMP and also the supervisor for Neves» postdoctoral project, funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP.