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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.

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@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}
}

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6 pages, to appear in Physical Review Research