Vacuum energy and inflation: 2. A vacuum energy universe

• Autores: Elisha Huggins
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 51, Nº. 7, 2013, pág. 408
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In most of our undergraduate physics courses, we study what can happen in space, but space itself plays a passive role. In basic cosmology, the opposite is true. It is the behavior of space that plays the major role. In this, paper #2, we first discuss the nature of a simple expanding space, and then look at the consequence of applying Newton's law of gravity in this space. The calculations are particularly simple if most of the energy behaves like the vacuum energy discussed earlier in paper #1.1 The calculation is easy but the results are spectacular.