Apocalypse soon |
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| Authors: | J. C. Jackson |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Ellison Building, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST |
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| Abstract: | Based upon a simple vacuum Lagrangian, comprising cosmological and quadratic scalar field terms, a cosmological model is presented the history of which is indistinguishable from that of an innocuous low-density cold dark matter (CDM) universe, but the future of which is very much shorter. For sensible values of the deceleration parameter (0< q 0<1), its age is greater than 85 per cent of the Hubble time, thus resolving the current version of the age crisis, which appears to be that t 0∼1/ H 0 while q 0 is significantly positive. |
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| Keywords: | cosmology: observations cosmology: theory dark matter. |
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