Eur. Phys. J. C (2016) 76: 709
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4577-8

Letter

The birth and death of a universe

¹ Department of Physics, Brown University, 02912, Providence, RI, USA
² Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, UMR 7335 CNRS, 1361 Route des Lucioles, 06560, Valbonne, France

^* e-mail: yves.gabellini@unice.fr

Received: 5 August 2016
Accepted: 14 December 2016
Published online: 24 December 2016

Abstract

This letter is meant to be a brief survey of several recent publications providing a simple, sequential explanation of dark energy, inflation, and dark matter. These paragraphs lead to an intuitive and qualitative picture of the why and the how of the Big Bang, and thence to a possible understanding of the birth and death of a universe.