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The large number hypothesis and the condition that general relativity is satisfied in Einstein units, allows a family of cosmological models, two of which are the Dirac model without creation and the more recent Dirac model with multiplicative creation. The new models have multiplicative creation, a cosmological scale factor S(t) ∝ tm, and are spatially flat; a multiplicative steady state model also satisfies the hypotheses. How these models affect the temperature of the Earth and the cosmological deceleration parameter is important.
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Roxburgh, I. Large number hypothesis and continuous creation cosmologies. Nature 268, 504–507 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268504a0
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