Lemaitre's limit [PDF]
Ian SteerToday's Friedman Lemaitre Robertson Walker standard cosmological model is named in part for Lemaitre. Yet today's physicists are largely unaware that Lemaitre also predicted a maximum spherical radius for our Universe of 14.2 billion light-years. That estimate, known as Lemaitre's limit, is surprisingly close to current estimates of the Universe's age.View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6566
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