User talk:Olaf Davis/Flatness Problem

To do

• Why physicists dislike the AP - Anthropic Explanations' has some on this.
• Read more from 'Is the Universe Open or Closed?'
• Discuss inflation
  • By def, a_dot_dot > 0 (Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure, Andrew R. Lidde + David H. Lyth, CUP, 2000, p.38)
• Discuss DE
• Read up on recent developments - some of these [1] look promising
• Fix diagram and add a second
• When was it first mentioned / named?
  • Dicke + Peebles (1979): [2]
  • Dicke (1961): [3]
  • Dicke (1969): [4]
• Non-breaking spaces are needed - see other MOS points.
• Continue solutions section
• Read inflation section (next page) in 'The Reality of the Unobservable'

Links

• [5]
• [6]
• [7]
• [8]
• [9]
• [10]
• Fine-tuned Universe
• Robert H. Dicke
• Steven Weinberg

Notes

In the Lambda-CDM cosmology favoured by astronomers, the early universe is dominated by radiation, then by matter.

Extra

• Work on Anthropic principle page?