Why is space-time locally Minkowskian rather than locally Euclidean?
Buket YALIN 1
, Metin ARIK 1
1Boğaziçi University Department of Physics, İstanbul, Turkey
Recent Advances in Science and Engineering 2021; 1(1): 1-7 DOI: 10.14744/rase.2021.0001
Abstract
We show that the FLRW metric can be analytically continued beyond Big Bang where it describes a locally Euclidean curved space-time. Thus, we can identify the Big Bang with the creation of one time dimension, transforming a curved four dimensional space into a 3+1 dimensional space-time.
Keywords: General relativity, Cosmology, FLRW metric, Analytic continuation
