Pushing the limits of General Relativity beyond the Big Bang singularity

被引:6
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作者
Vasconcellos, Cesar A. Zen [1 ,2 ]
Hadjimichef, Dimiter [1 ]
Razeira, Moises [3 ]
Volkmer, Guilherme [1 ]
Bodmann, Benno [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Sul, Inst Fis, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
[2] Int Ctr Relativist Astrophys Network ICRANet, Pescara, Italy
[3] Univ Fed PAMPA UNIPAMPA, Lab Geociencias Espaciais & Astrofis LaGEA, Cacapava Do Sul, Brazil
关键词
Big Bang; Einstein's equations; General Relativity;
D O I
10.1002/asna.201913748
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The predictions of General Relativity suggest a universe in which, as we follow time backward, the hotter and the more dense it was, and the more rapidly it was expanding and that, around 13.7 billion years ago, at the extreme gravitational regime of its evolutionary process, the density, temperature, and expansion rate of the universe would start off as infinite. The General Relativity prediction of a singularity in the early universe would impose a limitation to our understanding of the cosmos and gravity, implying loss of logic and of formal consistency and predictability, making it impossible to impose initial conditions. These extreme conditions of the initial state of the universe are very far from our experimental possibilities, and presently, theoretical models allow only speculations about the avoidance of physical singularities or about the physical conditions that circumvented this drastic consequence of General Relativity. Speculations aside, in this study, we follow an analytical line in which we apply the tools of singular semi-Riemannian geometry to push the limits of General Relativity beyond the Big Bang singularity.
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页码:857 / 865
页数:9
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