Friedmann model

[ freed-muhn ]

noun

, Astronomy.

1. any model of the universe deduced from a homogeneous, isotropic solution of Einstein's field equations without a cosmological constant. Such models form the mathematical basis for many modern cosmologies and provide for expansion or contraction of the universe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Friedmann model¹

Named after Alexander Friedmann, (1885–1925), Russian mathematician, who made the necessary calculations in 1922

Example Sentences

In the first Friedmann model, space is just like this, but with three dimensions instead of two for the earth’s surface.

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In the first kind of Friedmann model, which expands and recollapses, space is bent in on itself, like the surface of the earth.

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But which Friedmann model describes our universe?

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A remarkable feature of the first kind of Friedmann model is that in it the universe is not infinite in space, but neither does space have any boundary.

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This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang.

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