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Bimetric Gravity, Variable Speed of Light Cosmology and Planck2013

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-06-25 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

A bimetric gravity model with a variable speed of light is shown to be in agreement with the results reported from the Planck satellite in 2013. The predicted scalar mode spectral index is ns0.96n_s\approx 0.96 and its running is αs8×104\alpha_s\approx 8\times 10^{-4} when the fundamental length scale 0\ell_0 in the model is fixed to be 0105P\ell_0\approx 10^5\ell_P, where P\ell_P is the Planck length P=1.62×1033cm\ell_P=1.62\times 10^{-33}\,{\rm cm}, giving the observed CMB fluctuations: δH105\delta_H\approx 10^{-5}. The enlarged lightcone ensures that horizon and flatness problems are solved. The model is free from many of the fine-tuning problems of the inflationary models and the fluctuations that form the seeds of structure formation do not lead to a chaotic inhomogeneous universe and the need for a multiverse.

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@article{arxiv.1306.5470,
  title  = {Bimetric Gravity, Variable Speed of Light Cosmology and Planck2013},
  author = {J. W. Moffat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.5470},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

7 pages, no figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:gr-qc/0304058

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