Description
I will discuss a proposal to obtain an emergent spacetime
and early universe cosmology starting from a thermal state of the
BFSS matrix model. The emergent space has three infinite classical
dimensions. Like in String Gas Cosmology, thermal fluctuations in
the initial state lead to a spectrum of density fluctuations which
is consistent with observations, and predicts a roughly scale-invariant
spectrum of gravitational waves with a slight blue tilt.