Flat universe
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 09:20
in Mathematics & Economics
A remarkable finding of the early 21st century, that kind of sits alongside the Nobel prize winning discovery of the universes accelerating expansion, is the finding that the universe is geometrically flat. This is a remarkable and unexpected feature of a universe that is expanding let alone one that is expanding at an accelerated rate and like the accelerating expansion, it is a key feature of our current standard model of the universe.