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Physical vacuum and cosmic coincidence problem

Astrophysics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

A framework is suggested in which the energy integrals of the Friedmann cosmology are identified as genuine time-independent physical characteristics for both vacuum and non-vacuum forms of cosmic energy. The integrals are found to be numerically coincident within two orders of magnitude. It is assumed that this coincidence reveals a symmetry that relates vacuum to non-vacuum forms of cosmic energy at fundamental level. The symmetry shows the well-known cosmic coincidence problem and the naturalness problem as two inter-related aspects of a more general problem: Why are the energy integrals numerically coincident and equal to 1060MPl1 \sim 10^{60} M_{Pl}^{-1}? A simple kinetics model of cosmological freeze out is used to examine how -- at least, in principle -- the electroweak scale physics might explain the nature of the symmetry between vacuum and non-vacuum cosmic energies and determine the value of the energy integrals in terms of the fundamental energy scales.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0107071,
  title  = {Physical vacuum and cosmic coincidence problem},
  author = {Arthur D. Chernin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0107071},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Conference proceedings, 12 pages, LaTeX, no figure, for correspondence chernin@sai.msu.ru

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