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Old 16-February-2003, 07:59 PM
Crimson Crimson is offline
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There's a misconception here. The WMAP team did NOT determine the universe to be flat. They ASSUMED it was flat. From this assumption, the values of the Hubble constant, omega, lambda, and the age of the universe followed. If you don't assume a flat universe, the WMAP data barely constrain most of these quantities.
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