On the Collision of Relativistic Shock Waves and the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Abstract

The solution to the problem of symmetric collision of two relativistic shock waves is given and limiting cases are investigated: Newtonian mechanics and ultrarelativistic mechanics. The results are correlated with the presence of known superclusters and "walls" in the Universe.

Keywords

• shock waves
• big bang
• Special Relativity
• annihilation
• gas dynamics
• large scale structure