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Creation of Particles in Cosmology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2017

Ya. B. Zel'Dovich
Ya. B. Zel'Dovich*
Affiliation:
Institute of Applied Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

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The creation of particles is a process which can only be described by quantum field theory. The old classical theories dealing with indestructible particles are incompatible with particle creation. It was the discovery of the corpuscular nature of light (Einstein, 1905) and the prediction of antiparticles (Dirac, 1929) which demonstrated that particle creation was possible. The creation of particles may influence the cosmological equations through the energy-stress tensor of these particles. For physical cosmology the particles themselves are important. Therefore this report deals with a particular example of the impact of quantum mechanics on cosmological theory.

Type
Part VI: Matter-Antimatter Universes and Physical Processes Near the Singularity
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 63: Confrontation of Cosmological Theories , 1974 , pp. 329 - 333
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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