{ "id": "1501.01650", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-01-07T21:20:11.000Z", "updated": "2015-01-07T21:20:11.000Z", "title": "A glimpse of the early universe without real light", "authors": [ "Ana Blasco", "Luis J. Garay", "Mercedes Martin-Benito", "Eduardo Martin-Martinez" ], "comment": "5 pages, 2 figures. RevTeX 4.1", "categories": [ "quant-ph", "astro-ph.CO", "gr-qc", "hep-th" ], "abstract": "We analyze the implications of the violations of the strong Huygens principle in the transmission of information from the early universe to the current era via massless fields. We show that much more information reaches us through timelike channels (not mediated by real photons) than it is carried by rays of light, which are usually regarded as the only carriers of information.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-01-07T21:20:11.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "04.62.+v", "03.67.Hk", "98.80.-k" ], "keywords": [ "early universe", "real light", "strong huygens principle", "current era", "information reaches" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.141103" }, "note": { "typesetting": "RevTeX", "pages": 5, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 1337756, "adsabs": "2015arXiv150101650B" } } }