PIRSA:17080016

The exponential expansion of the universe from unrenormalised energy momentum tensor

Unruh, B. (2017). The exponential expansion of the universe from unrenormalised energy momentum tensor. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17080016

Unruh, Bill. The exponential expansion of the universe from unrenormalised energy momentum tensor. Perimeter Institute, Aug. 03, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17080016 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17080016,
            doi = {10.48660/17080016},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17080016},
            author = {Unruh, Bill},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {The exponential expansion of the universe from unrenormalised energy momentum tensor},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {aug},
            note = {PIRSA:17080016 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Bill Unruh University of British Columbia

DOI 10.48660/17080016
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

The unrenormalised energy momentum tensor is both huge and fluctuating from point to point. Taking this seriously we (Qingdi Wang, Zhen Zhu, and myself) argue that the slow exponential expansion of the universe (on time scales of 10^10 years) comes from a very weak parametric resonance induced by the fluctuating energy mementum tensor on the rapidly fluctuating scale factor (on time scales much shorter than the Planck scale). We see only the slow exponential growth because we avarage over the scale factor squared.