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Cosmology

Matter, radiation and vacuum universes

Matter dilutes as a^-3, radiation as a^-4 and vacuum energy not at all, so a flat universe grows as t^(2/3), t^(1/2) or exp(H t); generally a component with rho as a^-n gives t^(2/n), and radiation gave way to matter near z = 3,400.

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