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The hot big bang cosmology that we have discussed so far has been a very successful theory
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This is only true if the universe expands with deceleration, which is indeed the case for the radiation and matter dominated epochs of the standard big bang model.
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We disregard the recent period of accelerated expansion due to the dark energy. If we took this into account, our conclusions would remain the same.
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Our density estimate here is for GUT monopoles, but the problem persists even if the monopoles are formed at a lower energy scale.
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Perlov, D., Vilenkin, A. (2017). Problems with the Big Bang. In: Cosmology for the Curious. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57040-2_15
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