In Reply to: "The horse is dark energy and the saddle is flat" posted by keith on January 29, 2005 at 12:32:27

With an Omega of 1.01, per Neds site, space in the universe is observationally flat, but in reality on precise measurement, is marginally closed (Omega 1 and up....1.01)

The stuff from NASA is good too...

Note the "saddle" or hyperbolic space only applies if the measured omega is less than one. The omega is not, and is greater than one so why stick with hyperbolic space in our models?

This situation reminds me of that tiny precession of Mercuries orbit predicted by GR which when found, turned the world of science upside down. The 1.01 Omega cnfirms Einsteins intuition and prediciton as substantiated by the Schwarzschild solutions...which fit an omega of 1.01 very nicely.

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