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The speed of the universe’s expansion is a most sensitive figure. Were it as
little as one billion billionth different, the universe we now live in could
never have formed. This is like placing a pencil on its sharp end in such a
way that it will still be upright a billion years later. Moreover, as the universe
expands, this balance grows even more delicate.

If the rate of expansion one second after the big bang had been
smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million,
the universe would have recollapsed before it ever reached its
present size. 9

Alan Guth, the father of the inflationary universe model de-
veloped as an extension to the standard Big Bang model of the
universe, calculated in recent years an even more perplexing re-
sult for the fine-tuning of the universe’s rate of expansion. He
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states that the margin of error was 1 in 10 .

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