cosmological model
type of scientific model
cyclic model
Cosmological model involving repetitions of Big Bangs followed by Big Crunches
celestial spheres
in ancient cosmological models, rotating spheres made of aether in which the stars or planets are embedded
inflation
theory of rapid universe expansion
Big Bounce
hypothetical cosmological model for the origin of the known universe
anti-de Sitter space
maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with negative cosmological constant, which appears in the AdS/CFT correspondence
steady-state model
alternative to the Big Bang model of the evolution of the universe
Big Bang
hypothetical begin of the Universe through expansion out of an infinitely small and infinitely dense state
conformal cyclic cosmology
cosmological model
shape of the universe
subject of cosmology
one-electron universe
Physics postulate describing all electrons/positrons as one time-independent entity
eternal inflation
cosmological model in which the inflationary phase lasts forever throughout most of the multiverse but we find ourselves in a small corner in which inflation has stopped
black hole cosmology
cosmological model in which the observable universe is the interior of a black hole
de Sitter space
maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with positive cosmological constant