Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant Export

@misc{citeulike:888511, abstract = {In this paper we consider the implications of a cosmological constant for the evolution of the universe, under a set of assumptions motivated by the holographic and horizon complementarity principles. We discuss the ``causal patch" description of spacetime required by this framework, and present some simple examples of cosmologies described this way. We argue that these assumptions inevitably lead to very deep paradoxes, which seem to require major revisions of our usual assumptions.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Dyson, Lisa and Kleban, Matthew and Susskind, Leonard}, citeulike-article-id = {888511}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208013}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0208013}, day = {14}, eprint = {hep-th/0208013}, keywords = {gravity}, month = {Nov}, posted-at = {2008-11-24 21:21:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208013}, year = {2002} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:888511 L3 - citeulike-article-id:888511 N2 - In this paper we consider the implications of a cosmological constant for the evolution of the universe, under a set of assumptions motivated by the holographic and horizon complementarity principles. We discuss the ``causal patch" description of spacetime required by this framework, and present some simple examples of cosmologies described this way. We argue that these assumptions inevitably lead to very deep paradoxes, which seem to require major revisions of our usual assumptions. TI - Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant KW - gravity AU - Dyson, Lisa AU - Kleban, Matthew AU - Susskind, Leonard PY - 2002/Nov/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208013 ER -