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R2 Gravity and the Structure of the Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Kenneth Brecher
Kenneth Brecher*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215

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The “standard” hot big bang model accounts for the expansion of the Universe, the existence of the microwave background radiation, and the mass fraction of the light elements up to 4He. It does not account for the high degree of isotropy and homogeneity of the Universe in the large, nor of the existence of structure (galaxies, clusters) on smaller scales. Other problems, such as the lepton to baryon ratio, the preponderance of matter over antimatter, and the “coincidences” of dimensionless ratios of several fundamental physical and cosmological “constants” also lie outside of the “standard” model at present.

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Research Article
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 104: Early Evolution of the Universe and Its Present Structure , 1983 , pp. 483 - 484
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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