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A unique description of the Big Crunch-Big Bang transition is given at the classical gravity level, along with a complete set of homogeneous, isotropic, analytic solutions in scalar-tensor cosmology, with radiation and curvature. All…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-07 Itzhak Bars

We give an evidence of the Big Fix. The theory of wormholes and multiverse suggests that the parameters of the Standard Model are fixed in such a way that the total entropy at the late stage of the universe is maximized, which we call the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-10 Yuta Hamada , Hikaru Kawai , Kiyoharu Kawana

We study numerically the stability of Morris & Thorne's first traversible wormhole, shown previously by Ellis to be a solution for a massless ghost Klein-Gordon field. Our code uses a dual-null formulation for spherically symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Hisa-aki Shinkai , Sean A. Hayward

In this essay we discuss the difference in views of the Universe as seen by two different observers. While one of the observers follows a geodesic congruence defined by the geometry of the cosmological model, the other observer follows the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan A. Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik , Woei Chet Lim

During the past two decades, cosmologists turned to particle physics in order to explore the physics of the very early Universe. The main link between the physics of the smallest and largest structures in the Universe is the idea of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Marcelo Gleiser

The study of traversable wormholes is very hot topic for the past 30 years. One of the best possible way to make traversable wormhole is using the thin-shells to cut and paste two spacetime which has tunnel from one region of space-time to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-27 Ali Övgün

Entertaining the possibility of time travel will invariably challenge dearly held concepts of fundamental physics. It becomes relatively easy to construct multiple logical contradictions using differing starting points from various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Sebastian Schuster , Matt Visser

It has been suggested that the cosmic history might repeat in cycles, with an infinite series of similar aeons in the past and the future. Here, we instead propose that the cosmic history repeats itself exactly, constructing a universe on a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 Elizabeth Gould , Niayesh Afshordi

We provide a simple but very useful description of the process of wormhole formation. We place two massive objects in two parallel universes (modeled by two branes). Gravitational attraction between the objects competes with the resistance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-30 De-Chang Dai , Djordje Minic , Dejan Stojkovic

Tunneling is an important physical process. The observation that particles surmount a high mountain in spite of the fact that they don't have the necessary energy cannot be explained by classical physics. However, this so called tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Nimtz , A. A. Stahlhofen

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

Astronomical observations have confirmed the existence of BHs and the occurrence of the Big Bang event to beyond any reasonable doubt. While quantum field theory and general theory of relativity predict the mass-spectrum of BHs to be…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 A. A. Hujeirat

We discuss whether black holes could persist in a universe which recollapses and then bounces into a new expansion phase. Whether the bounce is of classical or quantum gravitational origin, such cosmological models are of great current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 B. J. Carr , A. A. Coley

One of the major pillars of modern cosmology theory is a period of accelerating expansion in the early universe. This accelerating expansion, or inflation, must be sustained for at least 30 e--foldings. One mechanism used to drive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-17 Damien A. Easson , Paul H. Frampton , George F. Smoot

Inflationary Cosmology makes the universe ``eternal" and provides for recurrent universe creation, ad infinitum -- making it also plausible to assume that ``our" Big Bang was also preceeded by others, etc.. However, GR tells us that in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuval Ne'eman

First, this paper broaches the definition of science and the epistemic yield of tenets and approaches: phenomenological (descriptive only), well-founded (solid first principles, conducive to deep understanding), provisional (falsifiable if…

General Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Hartmut Traunmüller

We analyze the dynamics of a homogeneous and isotropic universe in the Einstein$--$Cartan theory of gravity. The coupling between the spin and torsion prevents gravitational singularities and replaces the Big Bang with a nonsingular big…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-05 Gabriel Unger , Nikodem Popławski

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

A general class of solutions is obtained which describe a spherically symmetric wormhole system. The presence of arbitrary functions allows one to describe infinitely many wormhole systems of this type. The source of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. DeBenedictis , A. Das

We consider a configuration consisting of a wormhole filled by a perfect fluid. Such a model can be applied to describe stars as well as neutron stars with a nontrivial topology. The presence of a tunnel allows for motion of the fluid,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Dzhunushaliev , V. Folomeev , B. Kleihaus , J. Kunz