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A few other amusing notes:

1. Hubble's draftsman made an error while preparing his famous diagram. From Figure 1 of his paper (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1931ApJ....74...43H), you'll notice that the vertical axis is in "km" rather than "km/sec."

2. Measurements of the Hubble Constant over time: http://www.pnas.org/content/101/1/8/F2.large.jpg For some reason it's not plotted logarithmically so it's hard to see the convergence towards ~70 km/s/Mpc in the last twenty years.




That's a cool graph. It's hard to see, but it looks like we can't say it is distinguishable from zero?


Zero is the very bottom of the graph. The consensus value is somewhere between 50 - 100.


Interestingly, there was a long fight in the field of cosmology from ~1960 until ~1990 as to whether the Hubble constant was 50 or 100. It wasn't until within the past twenty years or so that the community began to agree upon the now-accepted value of ~70 km/s/Mpc.




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