On the Origin of Time and the Universe

@misc{citeulike:2716288, abstract = {We present a novel solution to the low entropy and arrow of time puzzles of the initial state of the Universe. Our approach derives from the physics of a specific generalization of Matrix theory put forth in earlier work as the basis for a quantum theory of gravity. The particular dynamical state space of this theory, the infinite dimensional analogue of the Fubini-Study metric over a complex non-linear Grassmannian, has recently been studied by Michor and Mumford. The geodesic distance between any two points on this space is zero. Here we show that this mathematical result translates to a description of a hot, zero entropy state and an arrow of time after the Big Bang. This is modeled as a far from equilibrium, large fluctuation driven, "freezing by heating" metastable ordered phase transition of a non-linear dissipative dynamical system.}, author = {Jejjala, Vishnu and Kavic, Michael and Minic, Djordje and Tze, Chia-Hsiung }, citeulike-article-id = {2716288}, eprint = {0804.3598}, keywords = {cosmology, matrix}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2008-04-25 02:54:58}, priority = {2}, title = {On the Origin of Time and the Universe}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3598}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2716288 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2716288 N2 - We present a novel solution to the low entropy and arrow of time puzzles of the initial state of the Universe. Our approach derives from the physics of a specific generalization of Matrix theory put forth in earlier work as the basis for a quantum theory of gravity. The particular dynamical state space of this theory, the infinite dimensional analogue of the Fubini-Study metric over a complex non-linear Grassmannian, has recently been studied by Michor and Mumford. The geodesic distance between any two points on this space is zero. Here we show that this mathematical result translates to a description of a hot, zero entropy state and an arrow of time after the Big Bang. This is modeled as a far from equilibrium, large fluctuation driven, "freezing by heating" metastable ordered phase transition of a non-linear dissipative dynamical system. TI - On the Origin of Time and the Universe KW - cosmology KW - matrix AU - Jejjala, Vishnu AU - Kavic, Michael AU - Minic, Djordje AU - Tze, Chia-Hsiung PY - 2008/Apr/23/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.3598 ER -