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Philosophical perspectives on ad hoc hypotheses and the Higgs mechanism
Simon Friederich, Robert V. Harlander, Koray Karaca
We examine physicists' charge of ad hocness against the Higgs mechanism in the standard model of elementary particle physics. We argue that even though this charge never rested on…
An Open Inflationary Model for Dimensional Reduction and its Effects on the Observable Parameters of the Universe
Koray Karaca, Selcuk Bayin
Assuming that higher dimensions existed in the early stages of the universe where the evolution was inflationary, we construct an open, singularity-free, spatially homogeneous and…
Inflation in Flat Universe
Koray Karaca, Selcuk Bayin
We started the evolution of a flat universe from a nonsingular state called prematter which is governed by an inflationary equation of state where represents…
An Open Singularity-Free Cosmological Model with Inflation
Koray Karaca, Selcuk Bayin
In the light of recent observations which point to an open universe , we construct an open singularity-free cosmological model by reconsidering a model originally constr…