Observational Cosmology - Unit 2 Solutions
10. For Omega=0, the expansion rate da/dt
is constant, so a0=t0da/dt, and therefore
t0=1/H0=1.4x1010yr (for H0
=70 km/s/Mpc).
If Omega>0 then the age will be less, since expansion will have slowed, and must therefore have been faster in the past (so it needed less time to get to the present scale).