The Cosmic Coincidence as a Temporal Selection Effect Produced by the Age Distribution of Terrestrial Planets in the Universe

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Egan, Chas
Lineweaver, Charles

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The energy densities of matter and the vacuum are currently observed to be of the same order of magnitude: (Ωm0 ≈ 0.3) ∼ (ΩΛ0 ap; 0.7). The cosmological window of time during which this occurs is relatively narrow. Thus, we are presented with the c

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31