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Is it possible to create a universe in the laboratory?

  • Sakai, Nobuyuki (PI)
  • Guendelman, Eduardo (CoPI)
  • Nakao, Ken-ichi K.-i. (CoPI)
  • Ishihara, H. (CoPI)
  • Tamaki, Takashi T. (CoPI)
  • Inoue, Kaiki K. (CoPI)
  • Tomita, Kenji K. (CoPI)

Project Details

Description

As to the question 'Is it possible to create a universe in the laboratory?' posed by Farhi & Guth (1987), we have found two theoretical models where a (quasi) stable particle changes into an inflationary universe by a classical process without initial singularity. One is a model where a stable magnetic monopole evolves into an inflationary universe, and the other is a model where a breathing false-vacuum bubble does. As a fundamental study of soliton solutions in particle fields, we have formulated an new method of stability analysis by use of catastrophe theory.
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/01/061/01/09

Funding

  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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