Acosmological surprise: the universe accelerates
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A cosmological surprise: the universe accelerates.
A cosmological surprise: the universe accelerates. Cosmology is in turmoil. The standard model of a few years ago has recently been abandoned and replaced by new ideas. The reasons for this dramatic change are new measurements of the geometry and the matter contents of the universe. The new model implies a dynamical age of the universe that accommodates the oldest known stellar objects, but rai...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics News
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0531-7479,1432-1092
DOI: 10.1051/epn:2001401