[PatrickHenry]

Cosmology ping.

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[VadeRetro]

The end of the universe is cancelled

Drat! I had tickets for good seats!

[longshadow]

Alright, let's get things rolling here. You've read Guth's book, PH; what's the deal -- is dark energy, which enables an ever expanding Universe, compatible with the Inflationary model, which requires the matter density of the Universe to be the critical value; i.e., the value that would lead to a flat Geometry and a "parabolic" rate of expansion (if there were no dark energy)?