Hep/Astro Seminar -- Wednesday 2nd Febuary, 2000

Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy in scalar-tensor Cosmology

Xuelei Chen (OSU)

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Abstract

In scalar-tensor theory of gravity, the gravitational "constant" is a not a constant but rather a scalar field. I discuss how this could affect the cosmic microwave background anisotropy. This effect could be used to probe gravitational theory in the early Universe.

3:30pm, Smith Lab 4079

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