The simplest origin of the big bounce and inflation

Abstract

Torsion is a geometrical object, required by quantum mechanics in curved spacetime, which may naturally solve fundamental problems of general theory of relativity and cosmology. The black-hole cosmology, resulting from torsion, could be a scenario uniting the ideas of the big bounce and inflation, which were the subject of a recent debate of renowned cosmologists.

5 pages, 2 figures; published version. This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2018 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation

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