Solution

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Set , retaining in . Replacing only the lower integration limit by zero gives
Substitution of the constants yields
To quantify the approximation, write . The true lower limit is , and an elementary integration by substitution, , gives
Since , the approximate time is too large by a relative fraction . This explains why changing the lower limit introduces little error for a small excess mass. The cosmological turnaround time diverges as , consistently with the absence of finite cosmological turnaround in an exactly critical Einstein-de Sitter universe.

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