Hi all-
I was at a cosmology lecture today on the "omega lambda" (dark
energy) measurements. It occurred to me that since tonight is the
beginning of the High Holy days, this week would be a good time for
someone to calculate the value of lambda for which the age of the universe
would be 4000 years.
I would label this number: "the first fundamentalist constant."
L'shanah tovah,
Jack
--
"What did Barrow's lectures contain? Bourbaki writes with some
scorn that in his book in a hundred pages of the text there are about 180
drawings. (Concerning Bourbaki's books it can be said that in a thousand
pages there is not one drawing, and it is not at all clear which is
worse.)"
V. I. Arnol'd in
Huygens & Barrow, Newton & Hooke