How does the Universe expand?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Quantization of gravity suggests that a finite region of space has a finite number of degrees of freedom or `bits'. What happens to these bits when spacetime expands, as in cosmological evolution? Using gravity/field theory duality we argue that bits `fuse together' when space expands.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0305204,
title = {How does the Universe expand?},
author = {Samir D. Mathur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0305204},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, harvmac (This essay received an "honorable mention" in the 2003 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.)