Analogy between freezing lakes and the cosmic radiation era
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2020-02-26 v1 Geophysics
Abstract
An equation describing a one-dimensional model for the freezing of lakes is shown to be formally analogous to the Friedmann equation of cosmology. The analogy is developed and used to speculate on the change between two hypothetical "spacetime phases" in the early universe.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2001.09533,
title = {Analogy between freezing lakes and the cosmic radiation era},
author = {Valerio Faraoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09533},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
6 pages, to appear in Physical Review Research