Expanding Shell around a Void and Universe Model

Evolution of Information and Complexity in an Ever-Expanding Universe

Using the usual definitions of information and entropy in quantum gravity and statistical mechanics and the existing views about the relation between information and complexity, we examine the evolution of complexity in an ever expanding universe.

A Local Void and the Accelerating Universe

Corresponding to the recent observational claims that we are in a local void (an underdense region) on scales of 200 − 300 Mpc, the magnitude-redshift relation in a cosmological model with a local void is investigated. It is already evident that the accelerating behavior of high-z supernovae can be explained in this model, because the local void plays a role similar to the positive cosmological...

Gott-Kaiser-Stebbins (GKS) effect in an accelerated expanding universe

Wewanttofindthecosmologicalconstantinfluenceoncosmicmicrowavebackground(CMB)temperatureduetomovinglinearcosmicstrings.Usingthespace-timemetricofalinearcosmicstringinanacceleratedexpandinguniverse,theGott-Kaiser Stebbins(GKS)effect,asanimportantmechanisminproducingtemperaturediscontinuityinthe(CMB),isconsidered;then,itsmodificationduetotheeffectofthecosmologicalconstantiscalculated.Theresultshowsthat...

Expanding Universe , Shrinking View

The Expanding Polymerase Universe

Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (pol I), discovered by Arthur Kornberg and colleagues in 1956. Thirteen years later, Paula de Lucia and John Cairns, at Stony Brook, New York, isolated an E. coli mutant, polA (its designation being a play on de Lucia’s first name, as proposed to Cairns by Julian Gross) that seemed to have less than 1% of the normal pol I activity. From this strain, a new DNA-p...