[Lev]

To calculate the effect of that million-million compression, divide the 15 billion years we observe looking back in time by the million-million.

Hmm, very convinient. 15 billion years sounds right. Now, can anybody tell me where the million-million factor comes from?

Regards,
Lev

[Alamo-Girl]

In answer to your challenge, from Gerald Schroder's website:

(In case you want to know, this exponential rate of expansion has a specific number averaged at 10 to the 12th power. That is in fact the temperature of quark confinement, when matter freezes out of the energy: 10.9 times 10 to the 12th power Kelvin degrees divided by (or the ratio to) the temperature of the universe today, 2.73 degrees. That's the initial ratio which changes exponentially as the universe expands.)

Age of the Universe