Cosmic Age for Deceleration/Acceleration

Size and velocity histories for three kinds of universe: accelerating, constant, and decelerating expansion. The slope of the size history gives the velocity history. Although they all have the same Hubble constant today (72 km/s/Mpc) they have different ages. Only the constant velocity expansion has an age equal to the Hubble time, 1/H0.

 

Figure from Whittle's Teaching Company course, and upcoming undergraduate text.