Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-08-22
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
35 pages
Scientific paper
Examining the reverse evolution of the universe from the present, long before reaching Planck density dynamics one expects major modifications from the de-coherent thermal equations of state, suggesting a prior phase that has macroscopic coherence properties. The assumption that the phase transition occurs during the radiation dominated epoch, and that zero-point motions drive the fluctuations associated with this transition, specifies a class of cosmological models in which the cosmic microwave background fluctuation amplitude at last scattering is approximately $10^{-5}$. Quantum measurability constraints (eg. uncertainly relations) define cosmological scales whose expansion rates can be at most luminal. Examination of these constraints for the observed dark energy density establishes a time interval from the transition to the present. It is shown that the dark energy can consistently be interpreted as due to the vacuum energy of collective gravitational modes which manifest as the zero-point motions of coherent Planck scale mass units prior to the gravitational quantum de-coherence of the cosmology. A scenario is suggested that connects microscopic physics to the relevant cosmological scale.
Lindesay James V.
Noyes Pierre H.
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