English

Void or Dark Energy?

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2009-11-24 v2

Abstract

Two possible explanations for the type SNe Ia supernovae observations are a nonlinear, underdense void embedded in a matter-dominated Einstein-de Sitter spacetime or dark energy in the Λ\LambdaCDM model. Both of these alternatives are faced with Copernican fine-tuning problems. A case is made for the void scenario that avoids introducing undetected dark energy.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0910.2723,
  title  = {Void or Dark Energy?},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.2723},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22 pages, 3 figures, LaTex file. Minor corrections

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