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Guillem Domenech,INFN Padova

Finding out what our baby universe may have been up to

4. A new window to the universe

3. Baby universe shakes spacetime

1. Meet the obserable universe

2. Universe's life

Roadmap

unexplored

Andromeda as it was 2 million years ago

Image by Pablo Carlos Budassi from Wikipedia

You are here now

(1parsec = 3 light-years)

The first light from 14 billion years ago

Hobbies: hide things

Age: 14 bilion years old

Size: 14 Gpc

Light takes a while to reach us. So the further we observe, the younger the universe

Meet the observable universe

1 second

ridicously tiny fraction of second

400k yr

1 bilion yr

14 bilion yr

Birth?

Senior?

Teen

Toddler

Child

Adult

Baby

Evidence

Unexplored

Currently explored

size & age of observable universe

Universe's life

How can we learn of the infant universe?

If light can reach only so far...

Baby

1 second

ridicously tiny fraction of second

400k yr

1 bilion yr

14 bilion yr

Toddler

Evidence

Unexplored

Currently explored

size & age of universe

The question:

Animation made with Mathematica

Good: they barely interact with matter

What are cosmic hammers?

Bad: you need to hit spacetime very hard!

Gravitational waves!

The answer:

Images drawn with Mathematica

Bad boy?

Good boy?

Was the baby universe a...

Violent?

Smooth?

Were quantum fluctuations in the baby universe...

Baby universe shakes spacetime

Black holes formed in the toddler universe from big fluctuations created in the baby universe

Gravitational waves and Primordial black holes

Note: Not like stellar black holes!

Baby universe shakes spacetime

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Approved

Proposed

Operating

In the next decades we will be monitoring the universe with several gravitational waves detectors.

Gravitational wave detector network

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Gravitational waves will tell us if our baby universe is hiding something big...

Take home message