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Early Universe Flatness Problem

My question is about the curvature of spacetime in the early universe (Plank era) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatness_problem Based on data from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, in order to ...
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Curvature in space time during Big Bang and present scenario

Space time in the presence of masses is curved. But during the time of Big Bang it's presumed that all the matter in this universe was at a single point, so it must have been super dense and had very ...
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Why is the universe expanding yet remaining flat?

According to The Big Bang Theory everything started from nothing and suddenly started expanding creating everything that is. So why is it only expanding on an X&Y axis? I can only find facts that ...
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Is the Big Bang notion compatible with the flat space? (A problem with the **moment** of Big Bang, not with the place of it) [duplicate]

A passage from a paper: "If one imagines running the clock backward in time, any given region of the universe shrinks and all galaxies in it get closer and closer until they smash together in a ...
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Open Big Bang-less universe?

This came up in discussion around a class I'm taking. For a Universe with $\Lambda$ and matter contributions to energy density (and implicitly curvature, but no radiation), can you have a universe ...
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