Cosmology: From Hubble to HST

Abstract

The Hubble constant sets the size and age of the Universe, and, together with independent determinations of the age, provides a consistency check of the standard cosmology. The Hubble constant also provides an important test of our most attractive paradigm for extending the standard cosmology, inflation and cold dark matter.

Comments: 15 pages LaTeX with 6 eps figures. To be published in The Extragalactic Distance Scale, edited by M. Livio, M. Donahue, and N. Panagia (Cambridge University Press, 1997)