General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, abstract
gr-qc/0602084
From: Nobuyuki Sakai [view email]
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:03:29 GMT (226kb)
The universe out of a monopole in the laboratory?
Authors: Nobuyuki Sakai, Ken-ichi Nakao, Hideki Ishihara, Makoto Kobayashi
Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures
Report-no: OCU-PHYS-241, AP-GR-31
To explore the possibility that an inflationary universe can be created out of a stable particle in the laboratory, we consider the classical and quantum dynamics of a magnetic monopole in the thin-shell approximation. Classically there are three types of solutions: stable, collapsing and inflating monopoles. We argue that the transition from a stable monopole to an inflating one could occur either by collision with a domain wall or by quantum tunneling.
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602084
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