On Cyclic Universes
Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0612243
From: Paul Frampton [view email]
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 21:06:39 GMT (15kb)
On Cyclic Universes
Authors: P.H. Frampton [Peter Frampton?!]
Comments: 7 pages latex. Talk presented at Workshop on Origin of Mass and Strong Coupling Gauge Theories. Nagoya, Japan. 21-24 November,2006
Dark energy in a brane world reconciles an infinitely cyclic cosmology with the second law of thermodynamics. At turnaround one causal patch with no matter and vanishing entropy is retained for the contraction.
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612243