The big bang as a higher-dimensional shock wave
P. S. Wesson (1), H. Liu (2), S. S. Seahra (1) ((1) University of, Waterloo, Canada (2) Dalian University of Technology, China)
TL;DR
This paper presents an exact five-dimensional solution indicating that the Big Bang could be modeled as a shock wave in higher-dimensional spacetime, linking 4D cosmology with 5D shock phenomena.
Contribution
It introduces a novel exact 5D solution describing a shock wave that correlates with the Big Bang in four-dimensional cosmology.
Findings
The 5D solution models a shock wave in higher dimensions.
The 4D matter behaves as a physically plausible cosmology.
The Big Bang may be interpreted as a 5D shock wave.
Abstract
We give an exact solution of the five-dimensional field equations which describes a shock wave moving in time and the extra (Kaluza-Klein) coordinate. The matter in four-dimensional spacetime is a cosmology with good physical properties. The solution suggests to us that the 4D big bang was a 5D shock wave.
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Taxonomy
TopicsCosmology and Gravitation Theories · Relativity and Gravitational Theory · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics