1204.0866 (Antonio Enea Romano)

On a principle of cosmological uncertainty    [PDF]

Antonio Enea Romano

We show that cosmological observations are subject to an intrinsic uncertainty which can be expressed in the form of an uncertainty relation similar to the Heisenberg principle. This is a consequence of the fact that the four dimensional space-time metric information is projected into the one-dimensional observational red-shift space, implying a limit on the amount of information which can be extracted about the underlying geometry. Since multiple space-time configurations can lead to the same red-shift, there is an unavoidable uncertainty about the determination of the space-time geometry. This suggests the existence of a limit about of the amount of information that cosmological observations can reveal about our Universe that no experiment could ever overcame, conceptually similar to what happens in quantum mechanics.

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