2020/02/18 by Ignazio Licata, Licata, Ignazio, Davide Fiscaletti +5
Physics and Astronomy · #Big Bang (financial markets) #Big Bounce #Big Crunch #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter universe #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Inflation (cosmology) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physical cosmology #Physics #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum mechanics #Steady State theory #Theoretical physics #Universe
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.07550
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In a recent work, Boyle, Finn and Turok hypothesized a model of universe that does not violate the CPT-symmetry as alternative for inflation. With this approach they described the birth of the Universe from a pair of universes, one the CPT image of the other, living in pre- and post-big bang epochs. The CPT-invariance strictly constrains the vacuum states of the quantized fields, with notable consequences on the cosmological scenarios. Here we examine the validity of this proposal by adopting the point of view of archaic cosmology, based on de Sitter projective relativity, with an event-based reading of quantum mechanics, which is a consequence of the relationship between the universal information reservoir of the archaic universe and its out-of-equilibrium state through quantum jumps. In this scenario, the big bang is caused by the instability of the original (pre)vacuum with respect to the nucleation of micro-events that represent the actual creation of particles. Finally, we compare our results with those by Turok et al., including the analytic continuation across the big bang investigated by Volovik and show that many aspects of these cosmological scenarios find a clear physical interpretation by using our approach. Moreover, in the archaic universe framework we do not have to assume a priori the CPT-invariance like in the other models of universe, it is instead a necessary consequence of the archaic vacuum structure and the nucleation process, divided into two specular universes.