In de Sitter space, the Gibbons-Hawking temperature is proportional to this quantity. The square of this quantity divided by its past value may be expressed as a sum of four powers with coefficients denoted by capital omegas. The critical density varies with the square of this quantity, which is added to this quantity’s time derivative in one form of the Friedmann acceleration equation. A namesake “tension” is due to the disagreement over whether this quantity, which is defined as the ratio of the (*) scale factor and its derivative, is closer to 68 or 74 kilometers per second per megaparsec. The reciprocal of this quantity gives an estimate for the age of the universe under linear expansion. For 10 points, what deceptively-named constant characterizing the “flow” of the universe is named for the same astronomer as the precursor of the James Webb Space Telescope? ■END■
| 2025 PLAYTIME Online | 04/26/2025 | Y | 9 | 100% | 67% | 11% | 75.67 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Harvard | 04/26/2025 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 120.50 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ Virginia Tech | 07/11/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 67% | 0% | 80.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ UBC | 10/05/2024 | N | 8 | 100% | 38% | 0% | 91.25 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ WashU | 10/12/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 33% | 102.00 |
| 2024 PLAYTIME @ JHU | 10/26/2024 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 126.88 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 94.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Northwest | 12/10/2024 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 121.25 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Claremont | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 107.80 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 50% | 108.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Florida | 12/10/2024 | Y | 1 | 100% | 100% | 0% | 61.00 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ CWRU | 12/10/2024 | Y | 5 | 100% | 40% | 20% | 97.60 |
| 2025 PLAYTIME @ Sheffield | 12/10/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 100.33 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Imperial B | 36 | -5 |
| Eric Mukherjee | Mike Dukakis Tank Battalion | Auburn 2026 | 43 | 15 |
| Mason Yu | Brown | BU | 47 | -5 |
| Alex Li | Free Agents 1 | MSJ | 50 | 15 |
| Ben Richards | Sheffield C | Sheffield A | 50 | 15 |
| June Yin | WashU Squirtle | Truman State | 60 | -5 |
| Leo Law | Project2025BC: Make Assyria Great Again | Qin Shi Huang's Immortality Poison | 61 | 15 |
| Swapnil Garg | Egypt Airlines Haters | Quatumvirate | 62 | 15 |
| John John Groger | WashU Charmander | Illinois A | 70 | 15 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois B | Chicago B | 70 | 15 |
| Ryan Rosenberg | Adrianne Lenker 4 Nobel Lit Prize 2K65 | Even in Blacksburg There I Am | 72 | 15 |
| Daniel Hothem | Monsieur Hulot's Academic Team | Illinois Orange | 73 | 15 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Ohio State A | 73 | 15 |
| Bhaskar Moorthy | Four Generalists in Search of a Power | we need new names | 73 | 15 |
| Vincent Du | 4 quizbowl pros go Virginia on North Carolina | Ashurbanipal’s Drag Race | 74 | 15 |
| Ariel Faeder | Pittsburgh | Ohio State C | 74 | 15 |
| Paphon Susikakosol | Imperial A | Warwick A | 74 | 15 |
| Stan | Gruh | Notre Dame + Epic Games | 74 | 15 |
| Bill Zhao | Keeping Up With the Cardassians | Too much from you lately | 77 | 15 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Lexington | 84 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State University A | Arizona State University B | 87 | 10 |
| Tracy Mirkin | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | Billy's Bastion | 87 | -5 |
| Ameya Bhalerao | mongeese | evil women enjoyers | 87 | -5 |
| Maximilian Niebur | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers | 89 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont A | UCSB | 91 | 10 |
| Neal Joshi | WashU Bulbasaur | Iowa State | 92 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT | Harvard | 93 | -5 |
| Shiv Seshan | Cambridge | Edinburgh | 94 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | Master and Margaritaville | Somehow Paula Deen Returned | 94 | 10 |
| Nathan Liang | Mahjonng Masters | Goober Gang | 94 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois C | Chicago A | 96 | 10 |
| Alan Kappler | Claremont B | UCLA B | 97 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | Ohio State D | Michigan C | 98 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri | SIUE | 98 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Trip-Hop Quizzer Tricky | 2 Italians, 2 Poles, All Noles | 98 | 10 |
| Carter Pisocky | Michigan B | Oberlin | 100 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | girl 15 whale i mean they | Caltech | 103 | 10 |
| Isaac Mammel | Maryland A | Johns Hopkins B | 103 | 10 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Ohio State B | 104 | -5 |
| Anderson Wang | Art of Premature Signaling | UCLA A | 106 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW A | South Dakota School of Mines | 112 | 10 |
| Eoin Neale | Lancaster | Sheffield B | 112 | 10 |
| Jolie Yeh | Warwick B | LSE | 112 | 10 |
| James Meek | George Mason A | Haverford A | 113 | -5 |
| Sam Hastings | Birmingham | Warwick C | 114 | 10 |
| Zaid Asif | NYU C | CWRU | 114 | 10 |
| El Sanzalone | evil women enjoyers | mongeese | 114 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown | 115 | 10 |
| Jason Cheng | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | UCSD | 115 | -5 |
| Simarya Ahuja | UW B | Washington Connections | 127 | -5 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | Carleton | 139 | -5 |
| Alyx Reckanh | Billy's Bastion | Edwin Laundrorat's Long-Lost Man Unclothès Rat Degrosses | 139 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | George Mason C | 139 | 10 |
| Gregory Zeldovich | Belmont | Brandeis | 140 | 10 |
| David Latimer | Imperial B | Manchester | 140 | 10 |
| Fred Garvey | Truman State | WashU Squirtle | 141 | 10 |
| Nate Kang | NYU B | Catholic University of America | 142 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown | George Washington | 142 | 10 |
| Gary Lin | UCSD | P.C.‚ Daniel‚ Michel‚ and Jason B | 142 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard | RIT | 143 | 10 |
| Avery Barnett | Haverford B | George Mason B | 143 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman | Haverford A | George Mason A | 143 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Alberta | 143 | 10 |
| Padraig Finan | Washington Connections | UW B | 143 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | Ohio State B | Michigan D | 143 | 10 |
| Logan Mathis | SIUE | Missouri | 143 | 10 |