2010/03/31 by Damien A. Easson, Paul H. Frampton, George F. Smoot · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th #astro-ph.CO #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217751x12500662
12 pages; version to appear in IJMPA
arxiv created 2012/04/13 · arxiv updated 2012/04/17
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 acceleration is the addition of a new energy field, called the Inflaton; often this is a scalar field. We propose an alternative mechanism which, like our approach to explain the late-time accelerating universe, uses the entropy and temperature intrinsic to information holographically stored on a surface enclosing the observed space. The acceleration is due in both cases to an emergent entropic force, naturally arising from the information storage on the horizon.