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Equation 5 · Part 1 · Fine-Tuning Without a Tuner: Selection Effects in Physics

Symbol Omega_M

ΩM=0.28\Omega_M = 0.28
ΩM\Omega_M

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OmegaMa_M is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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…universe with distant Type Ia supernovae found that the expansion is accelerating, and the Supernova Cosmology Project’s analysis of forty-two high-redshift supernovae reported, for a flat universe, a matter density of ΩM\Omega_M = 0.28 with combined statistical and systematic uncertainties of a few hundredths, and stated that the data indicated a nonzero, positive cosmological constant at 99 percent confidence [ 3 ] . That result places the implied vacuum energy density at roughly ΩΛ\Omega_\Lambda ≈\approx 0.7 — a…

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