Abstract
Experimental evidence has converged towards a flat or Euclidean geometry for the universe with an Ω parameter or ratio of universe density to critical density of precisely 1. A considerable portion of that density is provided by the so-called dark energy which has added an acceleration term to the Hubble redshift. Measurements by the Planck satellite give values of order 68 % for the dark energy contribution. This value is intriguingly close to 2 / 3, a critical value which would make the redshift velocity and acceleration related by the Hubble constant. The same value would also be obtained by applying Mach’s principle to explain inertia and using the equivalence principle to relate the inertial and gravitational values of the mass of an object at the centre of a Hubble universe.
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