SUPERLUMINARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM IN COSMOLOGY

@article{Moffat1993SUPERLUMINARYUA,
  title={SUPERLUMINARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM IN COSMOLOGY},
  author={John W. Moffat},
  journal={International Journal of Modern Physics D},
  year={1993},
  volume={02},
  pages={351-365}
}
  • J. Moffat
  • Published 16 November 1992
  • Physics
  • International Journal of Modern Physics D
The spontaneous breaking of local Lorentz invariance in the early Universe, associated with a first order phase transition at a critical time tc, generates a large increase in the speed of light and a superluminary communication of information occurs, allowing all regions in the Universe to be causally connected. This solves the horizon problem, leads to a mechanism of monopole suppression in cosmology and can resolve the flatness problem. After the critical time tc, local Lorentz (and… 
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