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Is the Universe Open or Closed?: The Density of Matter in the Universe

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Is the Universe Open or Closed?: The Density of Matter in the Universe - Coles, Peter, and Ellis, George
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This controversial book examines one of the most fundamental questions of modern cosmology: how much matter is there in the Universe? This issue affects theories of the origin and evolution of the Universe as well as its geometrical structure and ultimate fate. The authors discuss all the relevant cosmological and astrophysical evidence and come to the conclusion that the balance of arguments presently lies with a density of around twenty per cent of the critical density required for the Universe to ultimately recollapse. ...

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Is the Universe Open or Closed?: The Density of Matter in the Universe 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521566896

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