Observational Aspects of an Inhomogeneous Cosmology
- Author(s)
- Christoph Saulder, Steffen Mieske, Werner W. Zeilinger
- Abstract
One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is Dark Energy, which is required to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe within the standard model. But maybe one can explain the observations without introducing new physics, by simply taking one step back and re-examining one of the basic concepts of cosmology, homogeneity. In standard cosmology, it is assumed that the universe is homogeneous, but this is not true at small scales (
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- European Southern Observatory (Chile)
- Journal
- Proceedings of Science (PoS)
- Volume
- 18
- No. of pages
- 8
- Publication date
- 11-2012
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103004 Astrophysics, 103003 Astronomy
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/5db5e86e-be8f-4de8-8cef-ea093c851942