On Cyclic Universes
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Dark energy in a brane world reconciles an infinitely cyclic cosmology with the second law of thermodynamics. At turnaround one causal patch with no matter and vanishing entropy is retained for the contraction.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612243,
title = {On Cyclic Universes},
author = {P. H. Frampton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612243},
year = {2007}
}
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7 pages latex. Talk presented at Workshop on Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories. Nagoya, Japan. 21-24 November,2006