Toward the End of Time

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2006-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603104v2

JHEP0608:025,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

31 pages, reference added

Scientific paper

10.1088/1126-6708/2006/08/025

The null-brane space-time provides a simple model of a big crunch/big bang singularity. A non-perturbative definition of M-theory on this space-time was recently provided using matrix theory. We derive the fermion couplings for this matrix model and study the leading quantum effects. These effects include particle production and a time-dependent potential. Our results suggest that as the null-brane develops a big crunch singularity, the usual notion of space-time is replaced by an interacting gluon phase. This gluon phase appears to constitute the end of our conventional picture of space and time.

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