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Causal Structure of the Early Universe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

J. Richard Gott III
J. Richard Gott III*
Affiliation:
Princeton University Observatory

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The standard big bang model has always had a couple of fundamental problems: the universe's matter excess and the isotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. Recent developments in particle physics now point to answers to these problems and lead to new models for the causal structure of the early universe. One interesting possibility is the formation of multiple bubble universes. In such models there exist event horizons and the thermal background radiation can be produced by the Hawking mechanism.

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Research Article
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 104: Early Evolution of the Universe and Its Present Structure , 1983 , pp. 475 - 481
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Copyright © Reidel 1983 

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