TUESDAY seminar

Phillip Helbig, who is actually working in the finance world, but has earlier worked at Jodrell Bank Observatory at University of Manchester (UK) and Kapteyn Institute at University of Groningen (the Netherlands)

Title: Is there a flatness problem in classical cosmology?

Abstract: After briefly reviewing the flatness problem within the context of classical cosmology, I examine some of the debate in the literature with regard to its definition and even the question whether it exists.  I then present some new calculations which allow one to examine the flatness problem quantitatively for all cosmological models.

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