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Within conventional big bang cosmology, it has proven to be very difficult to understand why today's cosmological constant is so small. In this paper, we show that a cyclic model of the universe can naturally incorporate a dynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-01 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We propose an approach to explaining why naive large quantum fluctuations are not the right estimate for the cosmological constant. We argue that the universe is in a superposition of many vacua, in such a way that the resulting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 G. L. Kane , M. J. Perry , A. N. Zytkow

In [1], KKLT give a mechanism to generate de Sitter vacua in string theory. And the scenario, \emph{Landscape}, is suggested to explain the problem of the cosmological constant. In this paper, adopting a simple potential describing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheng-Yi Sun , De-Hai Zhang

We explore a cyclic universe due to phantom and quintessence fields. We find that, in every cycle of the evolution of the universe, the phantom dominates the cosmic early history and quintessence dominates the cosmic far future. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-02 Changjun Gao , Youjun Lu , You-Gen Shen

Complete cosmic evolution is a popular model in cosmology. But the possibility of other different cosmic evolution model can not be negated. The nonsingular bouncing scenario models are now found in literature. This work is a representation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-23 Subhayan Maity

The Cyclic Model is a radical, new cosmological scenario which proposes that the Universe undergoes an endless sequence of epochs which begin with a `big bang' and end in a `big crunch.' When the Universe bounces from contraction to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

We investigate the full 5D dynamics of general braneworld models. Without making any further assumptions we show that cyclic behavior can arise naturally in a fraction of physically accepted solutions. The model does not require brane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. N. Saridakis

A new mechanism of adjustment of vacuum energy down to the observed value from an initially huge one is considered. The mechanism is based on a very strong variation of the gravitational coupling constant in very early universe. The model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Dolgov , F. R. Urban

Whether our universe with present day acceleration can eventually collapse is very interesting problem. We are also interesting in such problems, whether the universe is closed? Why it is so flat? How long to expend a period for a cycle of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Hai Zhang

At very early times, the universe was not in a vacuum state. Under the assumtion that the deviation from equillibrium was large, in particular that it is higher than the scale of inflation, we analyse the conditions for local transitions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 John F. Donoghue

Under the assumption that the cosmological constant vanishes in the true ground state with lowest possible energy density, we argue that the observed small but finite vacuum-like energy density can be explained if we consider a theory with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun'ichi Yokoyama

One way that an anthropic selection mechanism may be manifest in a physical theory involves multiple domains in the universe with different values of the physical parameters. If this mechanism is to be relevant for understanding the small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 John F. Donoghue

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

Recently, it has been noticed that the amplification of the amplitude of curvature perturbation cycle by cycle can lead to a cyclic multiverse scenario, in which the number of universes increases cycle by cycle. However, this amplification…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Yun-Song Piao

After reviewing the cosmological constant problem - why is Lambda not huge? - I outline the two basic approaches that had emerged by the late 1980s, and note that each made a clear prediction. Precision cosmological experiments now indicate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Raphael Bousso

The idea of the quantum state of the Universe described by some density matrix, i.e mixture of at least two vacua, the trivial symmetric and the nontrivial one with spontaneously broken symmetry is discussed. Nonzero cosmological constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Grib

We propose a cosmological model in which the universe undergoes an endless sequence of cosmic epochs each beginning with a `bang' and ending in a `crunch.' The temperature and density are finite at each transition from crunch to bang.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul J. Steinhardt , Neil Turok

Active motion is a concept in complex systems theory and was successfully applied to various problems in nonlinear dynamics. Explicit studies for gravitational potentials were missing so far. We interpret the Friedmann equations with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 Alexander Gluck , Helmuth Huffel , Sasa Ilijic , Gerald Kelnhofer

A diverse set of observations now compellingly suggest that Universe possesses a nonzero cosmological constant. In the context of quantum-field theory a cosmological constant corresponds to the energy density of the vacuum, and the wanted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Lawrence M. Krauss , Michael S. Turner

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
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