Pre - bangian origin of our entropy and time arrow

Feb, 1999
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 454 (1999) 22-26
e-Print:
Report number:
  • CERN-TH-99-32

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Abstract:
I argue that, in the chaotic version of string cosmology proposed recently, classical and quantum effects generate, at the time of exit to radiation, the correct amount of entropy to saturate a Hubble (or holography) entropy bound (HEB) and to identify, within our own Universe, the arrow of time. Demanding that the HEB be fulfilled at all times forces a crucial "branch change" to occur, and the so-called string phase to end at a critical value of the effective Planck mass, in agreement with previous conjectures.
Note:
  • Latex file, 8 pages, 1 Figure Report-no: CERN-TH/99-32
  • cosmological model
  • string model
  • entropy
  • time
  • black hole