English

How Old is the Universe?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2010-11-01 v1 Astrophysics

Abstract

A dynamical model of the decaying vacuum energy is presented, which is based on Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory with a scalar field ϕ\phi. The solution of an evolutionary differential equation for the scalar field ϕ\phi drives the vacuum energy towards a cosmological constant at the present epoch that can give for the age of the universe, t013.5t_0\sim 13.5 Gyr for Ω0=1\Omega_0=1, which is consistent with the age of globular clusters.

Cite

@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9412010,
  title  = {How Old is the Universe?},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9412010},
  year   = {2010}
}

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13 pages, PlainTeX Macro included

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