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DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Test of Cosmological Theories

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Data from the neutron star merger observed Aug. 17 disfavor a range of theories, including many based around quintic Galileon cosmologies. This graph shows about 300 of these Galileon variants, with the green-shaded ones disfavored by the observed merger event.

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Berkeley Lab, <i>Physical Review Letters</i>

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