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Article #742Re: Hubble constant?
From: John C. Baez
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 13:22
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 13:22
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In article <Aug.4.18.55.45.1992.8486@ruhets.rutgers.edu> bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) writes: >I forgot to mention that one of the reasons for Hubble-cynicism is >the constant's well-known variation with time, given that Hubble >and others measured it to be about 550 in the 1930s, while >1990s estimates range from 50 to 100 and certainly no higher. This gave rise to Erdos' famous remark that he must be 10 billion years old now since the universe was 5 billion years old when he was a kid and now it's 15 billion years old. (I've got the numbers wrong but you get the idea.)
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!galois!riesz!jbaez From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) Subject: Re: Hubble constant? Message-ID: <1992Aug5.132244.28938@galois.mit.edu> Sender: news@galois.mit.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: riesz Organization: MIT Department of Mathematics, Cambridge, MA References: <92216.155158DOCTORJ@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> <1992Aug4.183334.20946@galois.mit.edu> <Aug.4.18.55.45.1992.8486@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 92 13:22:44 GMT Lines: 11