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Bishop, Nigel | |||||||
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Rhodes University - Lucas Avenue - Grahamstown - Eastern Cape - South Africa | |||||||
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DE2 |
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The Characteristic Formalism: Cosmology Constructed from Observational Data | |||||
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The characteristic formalism uses outgoing null cones to define coordinates, and is well-developed in numerical relativity for gravitational wave extraction. The formalism is well-suited to cosmology, since cosmological data is observed on past null cones. In the case of spherical symmetry, density and radial velocity data on an initial null cone define a well-posed evolution problem leading to the past behaviour of the universe. Observationally, the data can be obatined from galactic number counts or age data, and the distance red-shift relation. When red-shift drift data becomes available, constraints on the theory of gravity, such as the cosmological constant, will become feasible. |
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