From Newton's laws to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation

DOI10.1088/0143-0807/19/2/007zbMATH Open1522.83075arXivphysics/9806004OpenAlexW3099711783MaRDI QIDQ6079959FDOQ6079959

Authors: J. Norbury 

Publication date: 30 October 2023

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This is a pedagogical paper which explains some ideas in cosmology at a level accessible to undergraduate students. It does not use general relativity, but uses the ideas of Newtonian cosmology worked out by Milne and McCrea. The cosmological constant is also introduced within a Newtonian framework. Following standard quantization procedures the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the minisuperspace approximation is derived for empty and non-empty universes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9806004

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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