Selected Honorable Mentions from the Annual Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation for the Year 2007No Access

A NEW LOOK AT THE BIG BANG

PAUL S. WESSON

PAUL S. WESSON

Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada

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Abstract

We give a mathematically exact and physically faithful embedding of curved 4D cosmology in a flat 5D space, thereby enabling visualization of the big bang in a new and informative way. In fact, in unified theories of fields and particles with real extra dimensions, it is possible to dispense with the initial singularity.

This essay received an "honorable mention" in the 2007 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.

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