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The idea of a multiverse -- an ensemble of universes -- has received increasing attention in cosmology, both as the outcome of the originating process that generated our own universe, and as an explanation for why our universe appears to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. F. R. Ellis , U. Kirchner , W. R. Stoeger

The discovery of accelerating expansion of the universe has led us to take the dramatic view that our universe may be one of the many universes in which low energy physical laws take different forms: the multiverse. I explain why/how this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-07-31 Yasunori Nomura

Inter-universal entanglement may even exist in a multiverse in which there is no common space-time among the universes. In particular, the entanglement between the expanding and contracting branches of the universe might have observable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-04 S. J. Robles-Pérez

We present Euclidean wormhole solutions describing possible bridges within the multiverse. The study is carried out in the framework of the third quantization. The matter content is modelled through a scalar field which supports the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-02 Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Manuel Kraemer , João Morais , Salvador Robles-Pérez

This paper evaluates some important aspects of the multiverse concept. Firstly, the most realistic opportunity for it which is the spacetime variability of the physical constants and may deliver worlds with different physics, hopefully…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-10-22 Mariusz P. Dabrowski

Using the idea of regularisation of singularities due to the variability of the fundamental constants in cosmology we study the cyclic universe models. We find two models of oscillating and non-singular mass density and pressure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-27 Konrad Marosek , Mariusz P. Dabrowski , Adam Balcerzak

This work aims to study consequences of \textit{combined variable field theory} developed in [1] by analysing FLRW models of gravity. It shows $\Phi_{q \rightarrow 0} \rightarrow \infty$ is the Big bang in combined variable field theoretic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-14 Avadhut Purohit

The possibility of interaction among multiverses is studied assuming that in the first instants of the big-bang, many disjoint regions were created producing many independent universes (multiverses). Many of these mini-universes were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gamboa , M. Loewe , F. Mendez

We consider certain aspects of cosmological dynamics of a spatially curved Universe in $f(T)$ gravity. Local analysis allows us to find conditions for bounces and for static solutions; these conditions appear to be in general less…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-10 Maria A. Skugoreva , Alexey V. Toporensky

The great advances in the network of cosmological tests show that the relativistic Big Bang theory is a good description of our expanding universe. But the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in greatest detail suggest a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. J. E. Peebles , Adi Nusser

We study quantum entanglements of baby universes which appear in non-perturbative corrections to the OSV formula for the entropy of extremal black holes in Type IIA string theory compactified on the local Calabi-Yau manifold defined as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mina Aganagic , Takuya Okuda , Hirosi Ooguri

In gravitational theories with extra dimensions, it is argued that the existence of a positive vacuum energy generically implies catastrophic instability of our four-dimensional world. The most generic instability is a decompactification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven B. Giddings

We propose that at the beginning of the universe gravity existed in a limbo either because it was switched off or because it was only conformally coupled to all particles. This picture can be reverse-engineered from the requirement that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-09 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Michele Arzano , Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

The suggestion that there exist causally disconnected universes or sub-universes to explain the values of physical parameters such as the cosmological constant is discussed. A statistical model of the string landscape/topography is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

Starting with a study of the cosmological solution to the Einstein equations for the internal spacetime of an extreme supermassive cosmic string kink, and by evaluating the probability measure for the formation of such a kink in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Pedro F Gonzalez-Diaz

We consider the Multiverse as an ensemble of universes. Using standard statistical physics analysis we get that the Cosmological Constant (CC) is exponentially small. The small and finite CC is achieved without any anthropic reasoning. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Ido Ben-Dayan , Merav Hadad , Amir Michaelis

We consider the possibility to produce a bouncing universe in the framework of scalar-tensor gravity when the scalar field has a nonconformal coupling to the Ricci scalar. We prove that bouncing universes regular in the future with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 B. Boisseau , H. Giacomini , D. Polarski

Evidence for fine-tuning of physical parameters suitable for life can perhaps be explained by almost any combination of providence, coincidence or multiverse. A multiverse usually includes parts unobservable to us, but if the theory for it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Don N. Page

String theory predicts that the couplings of Nature descend from dynamical fields. All known string-motivated particle physics models also come with a wide range of possible extra sectors. It is common to posit that such moduli are frozen…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Vijay Balasubramanian , Jonathan J. Heckman , Elliot Lipeles , Andrew P. Turner

The mechanism of production of a large number of universes is considered. It is shown that universes with parameters suitable for creation of life are necessarily produced as a result of quantum fluctuations. Fractal structures are formed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. G. Rubin