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- From: jarleb@athena.uio.no (Jarle Brinchmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.physics
- Subject: Re: TEXAS ASTROPHYSICS MEETING at UCB
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.145452.7604@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:54:52 GMT
- References: <ofBHJTW00YUoI4vo94@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <ofBHJTW00YUoI4vo94@andrew.cmu.edu>, st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm) writes:
- |>From: st0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Steven Timm)
- |>Newsgroups: alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.physics
- |>Subject: Re: TEXAS ASTROPHYSICS MEETING at UCB
- |>
- |>Mr. Sarfatti suggested that the result was presented at the TEXAS meeting
- |>(in Berkeley, CA) that the universe would not expand indefinitely.
- |>
- |>By this I assume he claims that results were presented that indicate
- |>that Omega (density/critical density) is greater than or equal to 1.
- |>
- |>Perhaps results of this type may have been presented, since I didn't attend
- |>all sessions of the meeting. But they certainly didn't tell Stephen Hawking
- |>about such results, because in the public talk he gave on Wednesday night
- |>he suggested that the evidence is still inconclusive and omega is not yet
- |>well-enough measured.
- |>
- |>Steve Timm
- |>
-
- Well, there are quite a widespread consensus that Omega_baryon<0.1
- This is based on primordial nucleosynthesis, and from dynamical
- considerations, you can get an omega_gravitating of maybe 0.2, 0.3
- in some papers they quote omegas up to 1, but an omega larger than
- 1 is probably ruled out. I think the best argument is the age problem,
- which says that the universe must be old enough for the oldest stars
- to have formed. This will force omega to be 1 or less. If omega is larger
- we would have to have a smaller Hubble parameter (H_0) than any observations
- indicate.
-
- Quite a few cosmologist these days seem to take some interest in a
- non-zero cosmological constant. Because what inflation seems to want
- is Omega+lamda=1 (Normalized lamda). This will namely explain large scale
- structure observed (in the APM survey) and the COBE measurements.
-
- This is of course not truly nice, a mixed up model with all sorts of
- free parameters aren't what we want, but in the absence of better
- solutions, one do what one can.....
-
- So conclusion : Omega is very likely less than 1, maybe less than 0.5
-
- (Sorry for the lack of references, but Kolb and Turner Early Universe
- is a good introduction to the theory, as for papers I will leave the
- place open to others....)
-
- Jarle
-
- Happy New Year to everybody !!
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