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Birth of the Universe from the Multiverse
Laura Mersini-Houghton
It is fair to say that the deepest mystery in our understanding of nature is the birth of our universe. Much of the dilemma over the last decades comes from the extraordinarily sma…
Probing Dark Energy with Black Hole Binaries
Laura Mersini-Houghton, Adam Kelleher
The equation of state (EoS) of dark energy remains elusive despite enormous experimental efforts to pin down its value and its time variation. Yet it is the single most importa…
Thoughts on Defining the Multiverse
Laura Mersini-Houghton
The possibility that the multiverse corresponds to physical reality deserves serious investigation. Having three different important theories,(quantum mechanics, string theory and…
Cosmological Avatars of the Landscape II: CMB and LSS Signatures
R. Holman, Laura Mersini-Houghton, Tomo Takahashi
This is the second paper in the series that confronts predictions of a model of the landscape with cosmological observations. We show here how the modifications of the Friedmann eq…
Does the Low CMB Quadrupole Provide a New Cosmic Coincidence Problem ?
Alessandro Melchiorri, Laura Mersini-Houghton
We point out that the recent WMAP findings of a suppressed large scale power in the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy power spectrum, if of cosmological origin, make the case…
Dark Energy May Probe String Theory
L. Mersini, M. Bastero-Gil
The problem of dark energy arises due to its self-gravitating properties. Therefore explaining vacuum energy may become a question for the realm of quantum gravity, that can be add…