Speaker
Valerio Faraoni
(Bishop's University)
Description
We report a formal analogy between cosmology and earth science. The history of a closed universe is analogous to an equilibrium beach profile (i.e., the depth of the water as one recedes from a beach moving seaward). A beach profile reaches equilibrium in summer and in winter and is described by a variational principle that minimizes energy dissipation. The oceanography side of the analogy gains much needed information from the cosmology side.
[Based on V. Faraoni, Phys. Rev. Research 1, 033002.]
Primary author
Valerio Faraoni
(Bishop's University)
