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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas Univ. de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas Univ. de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas Univ. de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas Univ. de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
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- Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas Univ. de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Departamento de Física Moderna, Universidad de Cantabria, Avenida los Castros, 39005-Santander, Spain
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Center for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
- Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OHE, UK
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- a AT&T - Bell Laboratories , Murray Hill , NJ , 07974
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- b Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University , Princeton , NJ , 08544
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The question of whether there was a Beginning of the Universe is a truly challenging puzzle for physics and for philosophy. Classical general relativity implies that our observable universe originated in a singularity fifteen billion years ago, but this may be merely a reflection of the incompleteness of the theory. Inflationary theory and quantum cosmology provide our best current attempt to describe these early moments. It has been claimed that the inflationary mechanism renders moot the question of exactly how the universe began. I argue that, on the contrary, if one asks the question of what was in the past, we find ourselves staring directly back at a putative Beginning after all.
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- N Turok
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, England, UK.
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Bucher M, Moodley K, Turok N. Constraining isocurvature perturbations with cosmic microwave background polarization. Phys Rev Lett 2001; 87:191301. [PMID: 11690402 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.87.191301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/19/2000] [Revised: 10/09/2001] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The role of cosmic microwave background polarization data in constraining the presence of primordial isocurvature modes is examined. While MAP will be unable to simultaneously constrain isocurvature modes and cosmological parameters, PLANCK will set strong limits on isocurvature modes. If one allows isocurvature modes, the recently obtained BOOMERANG measurement of the curvature of the Universe fails. However, a comparably sensitive polarization measurement on the same angular scales will permit a determination of the curvature without the prior assumption of adiabaticity.
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- M Bucher
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA, United Kingdom
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Pen UL, Spergel DN, Turok N. Cosmic structure formation and microwave anisotropies from global field ordering. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1994; 49:692-729. [PMID: 10017028 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.49.692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Chuang I, Yurke B, Pargellis AN, Turok N. Coarsening dynamics in uniaxial nematic liquid crystals. Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics 1993; 47:3343-3356. [PMID: 9960387 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.47.3343] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Liu BH, McLerran L, Turok N. Bubble nucleation and growth at a baryon-number-producing electroweak phase transition. Int J Clin Exp Med 1992; 46:2668-2688. [PMID: 10015198 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.46.2668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Liquid crystals are remarkably useful for laboratory exploration of the dynamics of cosmologically relevant defects. They are convenient to work with, they allow the direct study of the "scaling solution" for a network of strings, and they provide a model for the evolution of monopoles and texture. Experiments described here support the simple "one-scale" model for cosmic string evolution, as well as some qualitative predictions of string statistical mechanics. The structure of monopoles and their apparent cylindrical but not spherical symmetry is discussed. A particular kind of defect known as texture is described and is shown to have a dynamical instability-it can decay into a monopole-antimonopole pair. This decay process has been observed occurring in the liquid crystal, and studied with numerical simulations.
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Spergel DN, Turok N, Press WH, Ryden BS. Global texture as the origin of large-scale structure: Numerical simulations of evolution. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1991; 43:1038-1046. [PMID: 10013472 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.43.1038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Brandenberger R, Kaiser N, Schramm D, Turok N. Galaxy and structure formation with hot dark matter and cosmic strings. Phys Rev Lett 1987; 59:2371-2374. [PMID: 10035526 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.59.2371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Brandenberger R, Kaiser N, Turok N. Dissipationless clustering of neutrinos around a cosmic-string loop. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1987; 36:2242-2249. [PMID: 9958427 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.36.2242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Turok N, Brandenberger RH. Cosmic strings and the formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Phys Rev D Part Fields 1986; 33:2175-2181. [PMID: 9956887 DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.33.2175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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