Scott Watson
Strings, Branes, and Cosmological Consequences
Brane Gas Cosmology (BGC) is an approach to M-theory
cosmology in which the initial state of the Universe
is taken to be small,
dense and hot, with all fundamental degrees of
freedom near thermal equilibrium. Such a starting
point is in close analogy
with the Standard Big Bang (SBB) model. The
topology of the Universe is assumed to be toroidal
in all nine spatial dimensions
and is filled with a gas of p-branes. The dynamics
of winding modes allows, at most, three spatial
dimensions to become large,
thus explaining the origin of our macroscopic
3+1-dimensional Universe. I will review the model
and explain how it has been
recently expanded to include more realistic backgrounds.
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