The Birth and Death of a Universe

TL;DR

This paper surveys recent theories explaining Dark Energy, Inflation, and Dark Matter, proposing a unified simple picture of the Universe's origin and ultimate fate, including its birth and death.

Contribution

It offers a concise overview connecting key cosmological phenomena to a comprehensive model of the Universe's lifecycle.

Findings

Unified explanation of Dark Energy, Inflation, and Dark Matter

A simple model describing the Universe's birth and death

Insights into the mechanisms behind the Big Bang

Abstract

This letter is meant to be a brief survey of several recent publications providing a simple, sequential explanation of Dark Energy, Inflation and Dark Matter, which leads to a simple picture of the why and the how of the Big Bang, and thence to a possible understanding of the birth and death of a Universe.