Probing beyond the Cosmic Horizon
Abstract
There are reasons to believe that the region of uniform curvature that we observe within our horizon is perhaps a tiny patch, much smaller than the length scales of inhomogeneity and global connectivity of an extremely complicated manifold. However, the recent supernova (SN) results suggest that the horizon scale could be comparable to or even much larger than curvature radius. Non trivial global structure too tends to be of the order of the local curvature scale. Probing (slightly) beyond the cosmic horizon can potentially reveal nontrivial global structure lurking around or just beyond the horizon scale. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is a sensitive probe of the universe on length scales up to and somewhats beyond the horizon scale and is perhaps poised to detect or put interesting limits on nontrivial features the global structure. This point is exemplified by high CMB anisotropy signal of the Elliptical topology in a large fraction of the revised parameter space of the closed FRW universe (spherical geometry) currently preferred by SN observations.
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BibTeX
@misc{souradeep2026probing,
title = {{Probing beyond the Cosmic Horizon}},
author = {Tarun Souradeep},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08083},
eprint = {2610.08083},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08083},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Probing beyond the Cosmic Horizon
AU - Tarun Souradeep
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/06
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08083
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08083
AB - There are reasons to believe that the region of uniform curvature that we observe within our horizon is perhaps a tiny patch, much smaller than the length scales of inhomogeneity and global connectivity of an extremely complicated manifold. However, the recent supernova (SN) results suggest that the horizon scale could be comparable to or even much larger than curvature radius. Non trivial global structure too tends to be of the order of the local curvature scale. Probing (slightly) beyond the cosmic horizon can potentially reveal nontrivial global structure lurking around or just beyond the horizon scale. The cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy is a sensitive probe of the universe on length scales up to and somewhats beyond the horizon scale and is perhaps poised to detect or put interesting limits on nontrivial features the global structure. This point is exemplified by high CMB anisotropy signal of the Elliptical topology in a large fraction of the revised parameter space of the closed FRW universe (spherical geometry) currently preferred by SN observations.
ER -