2004/01/27 by Justin Khoury, Khoury, Justin
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #astro-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0401579
8 pages, 1 figure. Invited talk at the 6th RESCEU Symposium, Nov. 2003, Tokyo, Japan. v2: added and updated references
arxiv created 2004/03/04 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
This is a short overview of the ekpyrotic/cyclic model of the universe, an alternative to the standard big bang inflationary paradigm.