The signals of doomsday II: Cosmological signatures of late time $SU(3{)}_c$ symmetry breaking

Amartya Sengupta, Dejan Stojkovic, L. C. R. Wijewardhana

Only two gauge symmetries remain unbroken today: $SU(3{)}_c$ and $U(1{)}_{\mathrm{EM}}$. Both are crucial to our universe as it is and to our form of life. Unless we are special observers a…