(October 4, 2012 at 8:45 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Rather like the term Big Bang, 'Hubble Constant' is something of a misnomer. More accurately it's called the Hubble Parameter, as it depends on time. It's the proportion between the recession velocity of galaxies and their distance.
Yeah, "Big Bang" is an unfortunate name which, as the story goes, was coined by Fred Hoyle, a proponent of the steady-state model. It's not an accurate term in any sense, but alas, it stuck.