The Tinsley Diagram Revisited

Abstract

Motivated by the recent determinations of the Hubble constant $(H_0)$ from observations of Cepheid variables in NGC4571 and M100, we plot the Tinsley diagram with level curves of the cosmological constant $(\Lambda )$. Based on current estimates of the absolute ages of globular clusters we conclude that $\Lambda >0$ and, irrespective of the background spatial curvature, the universe will not recollapse. These conclusions hold for both relativistic and Newtonian models and are {\it independent} of the density parameter.

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