A Solution to the Horizon Problem: A Delayed Big-Bang Singularity

Abstract

One of the main drawbacks of standard cosmology, known as the horizon problem, was until now thought to be only solvable in an inflationary scenario. A delayed Big-Bang in an inhomogeneous universe is shown to solve this problem while leaving unimpaired the main successful features of the standard model.

18 LaTeX pages and 2 figures, accepted for publication in Physics Letters A

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