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Originally Posted by salte
IOW the space may appear flat and be almost flat because it is so huge but it isn't really flat, it has just a very small curvature that is near 0 but not exactly 0. Isn't that the most reasonable result of an inflation?.... At best we can say that it is so huge that it appears near flat to us.
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Absolutely. My previous post was much too... absolute in its assertion of flatness. Without checking, I believe the margin of error is fairly significant in the CMB temperature variation power spectrum test.