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Originally Posted by John Mendenhall
I would look with suspicion at all current estimates. In my lifetime, which luckily does not reach back to Einstein's original papers, I have seen serious values for density, assigning the critical density equal to 1, that have ranged from less than .5 to more than 3. Esthetically, it would be nice if it was 1, but I think it's still wait and see. And the value shapes so much of the rest of cosmology . . .
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So you advise me to wait with the final conclusion of my PhD work? I still have 3 to 4 years to finish it and I need the density to be exaxtly 1.5 of "critical" to prove that conservation of energy exists also in cosmology (and as a byproduct that the universe isn't expanding). But is there any hope that astronomers find the missing 56% of the universe in just 4 years while they insist now that their accuracy is better than 8%?