Thanks for the response, it is not relevant to the measurement today, I was responding to the comment saying the measurement won't change for "next many trillions of years".
Link to the paper mentioned: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2018/04/aa32880-18/aa32880-18.html
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