Relics of the primordial origins of space and time in the low energy world
Abstract
In the earliest stage of cosmological evolution due to high matter densities space and time most likely admitted a very complex geometrical and topological structure. After themalization, statistical averaging and cooling, flat Minkowski space developed but statistical fluctuations from this “averaged out space-time” may still exist in the low energy world. In the following, we explore the consequences of these fluctuations in the low energy world based on a “microscopic uncertainty principle for time”. Phenomena such as spin polarization precession, spectral shifts, spin flips, C.P. violating phenomena and neutron interferometry may all be influenced by these fluctuations and we discuss just how the conventional theory of these temporal phenomena could be affected by fluctuations away from Minkowski space-time. We also discuss the experimental limits on the discrete time interval setting the scale of these fluctuations along with possible temporal changes of the discrete time interval over cosmological time scales in the spirit of Dirac's “Large number hypothesis”.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- March 1996
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00642303
- Bibcode:
- 1996Ap&SS.244..329W