Table 1 with values for a 14 billion year (Gyr) old, near critical-density Universe:

*) Age t = 300,000 years, corresponding to the end of the plasma period after BB    

The 32 shells in fig. 1 represent the Universe's expansion in increments of first 0.25 Gly and from the 2.0 Gyr shell, of 0.5 Gly up to 14 Gyr. The exactness of the mutual distances has been assured by using CorelDraw which is a vector program and thus graphically very exact.

    I then chose a fixed "yardstick" for 1 Gly (respectively 0.25 and 0.50) and plotted it onto the first shell. Then I "stretched" it with the intermediate expansion of the Universe so that the curve ends on our Now on the Scale axis. (In reality, I worked the other way round, beginning at our Now and saw to it that the curve ended at BB, see fig. 1.

    Theoretically I should have worked with an infinite number of shells and corresponding infinitesimal small time intervals, but in my coarse, graphic model it does not seem to play a part. The figure below shows the principle:

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