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Singularity-free self-creation cosmology

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It is shown that a decreasing gravitational constant in the flat-space radiation universe of Barber's self-creation cosmology leads to interesting novel consequences. The resulting cosmological solution is free of the standard initial singularity and indicates the existence of a pre-radiation vacuum-dominated phase.

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  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum, Sudan

    A-M. M. Abdel-Rahman

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Abdel-Rahman, AM.M. Singularity-free self-creation cosmology. Astrophys Space Sci 189, 23–28 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00642948

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