SEARCHING FOR EXTRA DIMENSIONS IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04019925MaRDI QIDQ4660993zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Douglas J. Buettner, P. D. Morley, Ivan Schmidt

Publication date 4 April 2005

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009461

zbMATH Keywords

early universeExtra dimensionsquasars

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We investigate extra spatial dimensions ($D=3+epsilon$) in the early universe using very high resolution molecular rotational spectroscopic data derived from a large molecular cloud containing moderately cold carbon monoxide gas at Z $approx6.42$. It turns out that the $epsilon$-dependent quantum mechanical wavelength transitions are solvable for a linear molecule and we present the solution here. The CO microwave data allows a very precise determination of $<epsilon>=-0.00000657pm.10003032$. The probability that $<epsilon>eq0$ is one in 7794, only 850 million years (using the standard cosmology) after the Big Bang.

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