Cosmology - New troubles for inflation?

被引:8
作者
Kamionkowski, M
Jaffe, AH
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Phys, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Ctr Particle Astrophys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
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D O I
10.1038/27078
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
In the very early Universe, gravity may briefly have become repulsive. The ensuing period of rapid expansion, called ‘inflation’, could account for such fundamental matters as the origin of galaxies and galaxy clusters. But if a new analysis of the cosmic microwave background stands up, inflation either cannot be so simple, or must be discarded.
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页码:639 / 641
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