Age of a closed dust universe
ID: age-of-a-closed-dust-universe
For an expanding pressureless matter universe with positive curvature, zero cosmological constant and present scale factor one, set . The closed matter-dominated Friedmann solution then gives the displayed age of an FLRW universe. Its flat limit is , despite the individually vanishing numerator and denominator. To see this, write ; then and .
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