2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/11121The 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.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)AstrophysicsHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenologytext