Speaker
Mr
Mustafa Saeed
(University of New Brunswick)
Description
Cosmology presupposes that on scales of $10^{8}$ light years the universe is the same at every point and in every direction. This is observationally supported by the cosmic microwave background (CMB) which has a temperature of 2.7 Kelvin in all directions. However, there exist small perturbations on this symmetric background - for example the CMB has perturbations of 0.001 Kelvin. A study of these fluctuations is cosmological perturbation theory. In this talk, I will review the standard theory of cosmological perturbations, explain our framework which is different from the standard method and then generalize our framework to include a matter clock.
Authors
Dr
Viqar Husain
(University of New Brunswick)
Mr
Mustafa Saeed
(University of New Brunswick)
