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Jun 23 – 27, 2025
SpringHill Suites Conference Center Deadwood
US/Mountain timezone

Observational Signatures of Cosmological Stasis

Not scheduled
30m
Roosevelt Room I (SpringHill Suites Conference Center Deadwood)

Roosevelt Room I

SpringHill Suites Conference Center Deadwood

Cadillac Jack's Resort 360 Main St, Deadwood, SD 57732

Speaker

Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)

Description

Cosmological stasis is a phenomenon wherein the abundances of multiple cosmological energy components with different equations of state remain constant for an extended period despite the expansion of the universe. In this talk, I discuss the possible observational implications of this phenomenon. These include characteristic imprints in the stochastic gravitational-wave background and an enhanced growth of perturbations in the density of matter on small scales.

Authors

Prof. Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College) Prof. Keith R. Dienes (University of Arizona) Dr Lucien Heurtier (King’s College London) Mr Daniel Hoover (Lafayette College) Dr Fei Huang (Weizmann Institute) Ms Anna Paulsen (Brown University) Prof. Timothy M. P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

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