Open AccessDecelerating universes older than their Hubble times
Author(s) -
Jackson J. C.,
Dodgson Marina
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01552.x
Subject(s) - physics , hubble's law , hubble volume , inflaton , astrophysics , metric expansion of space , age of the universe , universe , supernova , astronomy , de sitter universe , radius , inflation (cosmology) , cosmology , dark energy , computer security , computer science
Recent observations suggest that Hubble's constant is large, and hence that the Universe appears to be younger than some of its constituents. The traditional escape route, which assumes that the expansion is accelerating, appears to be blocked by observations of Type Ia supernovae, which suggest that the Universe is decelerating. These observations are reconciled in a model in which the Universe has experienced an inflationary phase in the recent past, driven by an ultralight inflaton, the Compton wavelength of which is of the same order as the Hubble radius.