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Cosmic Strings and Galaxy Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Neil Turok
Neil Turok*
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Department of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College, London SW7 2BZ, England

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The hot big bang theory of the early universe is rather well established. Among its successful predictions are the Hubble expansion, the microwave background radiation and the abundances of the light elements. It also fits in rather nicely with ideas from particle physics. According to these ideas (which are firmly based on experiment) at high energies particle interactions become more symmetrical and the apparently complicated particle spectrum today becomes very simple. It is an appealing notion that such a state of high symmetry was actually realised in the very early universe at very high temperatures, and the symmetry was broken as the universe expanded and cooled.

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Research Article
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 130: Large Scale Structures of the Universe , 1988 , pp. 281 - 288
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Copyright © Reidel 1988 

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