Lambda-CDM model: Difference between revisions

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It is the current ''standard model'' of Big Bang cosmology,<ref name=DeruelleUzan>{{Cite book |last1=Deruelle |first1=Nathalie |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/43967 |title=Relativity in Modern Physics |last2=Uzan |first2=Jean-Philippe |date=2018-08-30 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-878639-9 |editor-last=de Forcrand-Millard |editor-first=Patricia |edition=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198786399.001.0001 |author-link=Nathalie Deruelle |author-link2=Jean-Philippe Uzan}}</ref> as it is the simplest model that provides a reasonably good account of:

* the existence and [[Bondage (BDSM)|structure]] of the [[cosmic microwave background]];

* the [[Observable universe#Large-scale structure|large-scale structure]] in the distribution of galaxies;

* the observed [[abundance of the chemical elements|abundances]] of [[Big Bang nucleosynthesis|hydrogen (including deuterium), helium, and lithium]];