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arxiv: astro-ph/0009461 · v2 · submitted 2000-09-28 · 🌌 astro-ph · hep-ph

Searching for Extra Dimensions in the Early Universe

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We investigate extra spatial dimensions ($D = 3+\epsilon$) in the early universe using very high resolution molecular rotational spectroscopic data derived from a large molecular cloud containing moderately cold carbon monoxide gas at Z $\approx 6.42$. It turns out that the $\epsilon$-dependent quantum mechanical wavelength transitions are solvable for a linear molecule and we present the solution here. The CO microwave data allows a very precise determination of $< \epsilon > = -0.00000657 \pm .10003032$. The probability that $ < \epsilon > \neq 0$ is one in 7794, only 850 million years (using the standard cosmology) after the Big Bang.

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