Problems with the Classical, Decelerating Universe:
1)The flatness problem:
Even a tiny deviation
from perfect flatness at the time of the Big Bang should have been amplified to a
huge deviation today.
=> Extreme fine tuning required!
2) The isotropy of the cosmic background:
If information can only
travel through the universe at the speed of light, then structure in the cosmic
background should not be correlated over large angular scales!
The universe seems to
be nearly flat.
Þ Contradiction to almost perfect isotropy of the cosmic
background!
