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Transport Processes in the Primordial Fireball

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IT has not so far been possible to understand how galaxies could have developed out of unstably amplified statistical fluctuations in an expanding universe which was initially homogeneous and isotropic1. The view that the universe was once highly irregular2 has therefore been taken up again (ref. 3 and personal communications from R. W. Michie and W. C. Saslaw). Here one would like, not only to explain how certain finite initial perturbations develop into galaxies, but also to present a satisfying view of the full spectrum of initial irregularities and their subsequent development. Some peripheral scenes from this view are exposed in the present communication, and I hope these will serve as an introduction to the unresolved central aspects of the problem.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge,

    CHARLES W. MISNER

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

    CHARLES W. MISNER

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MISNER, C. Transport Processes in the Primordial Fireball. Nature 214, 40–41 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/214040a0

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