Published March 30, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Some notes on the big trip

  • 1. Colina de los Chopos, Centro de Fisica 'Miguel A. Catalan', Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid (Spain)

Description

The big trip is a cosmological process thought to occur in the future by which the entire universe would be engulfed inside a gigantic wormhole and might travel through it along space and time. In this Letter we discuss different arguments that have been raised against the viability of that process, reaching the conclusions that the process can actually occur by accretion of phantom energy onto the wormholes and that it is stable and might occur in the global context of a multiverse model. We finally argue that the big trip does not contradict any holographic bounds on entropy and information

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2006.02.046;
arXiv
arXiv:hep-th/0607137v1;
PII
S0370-2693(06)00234-6;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
635
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 1-6
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
38029085
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; ENTROPY; GALACTIC EVOLUTION; SPACE-TIME; UNIVERSE
Descriptors DEC
EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2006 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.