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A Bouncing Cosmology from VECROs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-05-10 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We argue that, in the same way that in a black hole space-time VECROs will form in order to cancel the gravitational effects of a collapsing mass shell and prevent the formation of a singularity, in a contracting universe a gas of VECROs will form to hold up the contraction, prevent a Big Crunch singularity, and lead to a nonsingular cosmological bounce.

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@article{arxiv.2302.12924,
  title  = {A Bouncing Cosmology from VECROs},
  author = {Robert Brandenberger and Gabrielle A. Mitchell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.12924},
  year   = {2023}
}

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5 pages

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