Big Bang riddles and their revelations

DOI10.1098/RSTA.1999.0491MaRDI QIDQ4946469zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kim Baskerville, João Magueijo

Publication date 12 September 2000

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9905393

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationstring theoryvarying constants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We describe how cosmology has converged towards a beautiful model of the Universe: the Big Bang Universe. We praise this model, but show there is a dark side to it. This dark side is usually called ``the cosmological problems: a set of coincidences and fine tuning features required for the Big Bang Universe to be possible. After reviewing these ``riddles we show how they have acted as windows into the very early Universe, revealing new physics and new cosmology just as the Universe came into being. We describe inflation, pre Big Bang, and varying speed of light theories. At the end of the millennium, these proposals are seen respectively as a paradigm, a tentative idea, and outright speculation.

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