Most of us now want to know a handful of additional numbers: t, the age of the universe; [[Omega].sub.m], the density of matter in all forms (normalized to the amount that would just stop the expansion in infinite time); [[Omega].sub.b], the density of the sort of matter we are made of, from hydrogen to uranium; K, the curvature of space (
spherelike, flat, or saddlelike); [[Omega].sub.A], Einstein's infamous cosmological constant (again normalized); and the amplitude and slope of the spectrum of primordial bumps and wiggles that grew into superclusters and voids in the distribution of galaxies we see.