Eternal inflation predicts that time will end
Present treatments of eternal inflation regulate infinities by imposing a geometric cutoff. We point out that some matter systems reach the cutoff in finite time. This implies a nonzero probability for a novel type of catastrophe. According to the most successful measure proposals, our galaxy is lik...
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| author | Bousso, Raphael Freivogel, Benjamin W. Leichenauer, Stefan Rosenhaus, Vladimir |
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| description | Present treatments of eternal inflation regulate infinities by imposing a geometric cutoff. We point out that some matter systems reach the cutoff in finite time. This implies a nonzero probability for a novel type of catastrophe. According to the most successful measure proposals, our galaxy is likely to encounter the cutoff within the next 5×109 years. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/630932022-10-01T05:13:14Z Eternal inflation predicts that time will end Bousso, Raphael Freivogel, Benjamin W. Leichenauer, Stefan Rosenhaus, Vladimir Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Freivogel, Benjamin W. Freivogel, Benjamin W. Present treatments of eternal inflation regulate infinities by imposing a geometric cutoff. We point out that some matter systems reach the cutoff in finite time. This implies a nonzero probability for a novel type of catastrophe. According to the most successful measure proposals, our galaxy is likely to encounter the cutoff within the next 5×109 years. Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics National Science Foundation (U.S.) United States. Dept. of Energy (Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231) Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Japan) (fqxi under Grant No. RFP2- 08-06) 2011-05-24T16:01:16Z 2011-05-24T16:01:16Z 2011-01 2010-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63093 Bousso, Raphael, Ben Freivogel, Stefan Leichenauer, and Vladimir Rosenhaus. "Eternal inflation predicts that time will end." Phys. Rev. D 83:2 023525 (2011)© 2011 American Physical Society. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023525 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society APS |
| spellingShingle | Bousso, Raphael Freivogel, Benjamin W. Leichenauer, Stefan Rosenhaus, Vladimir Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
| title | Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
| title_full | Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
| title_fullStr | Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
| title_full_unstemmed | Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
| title_short | Eternal inflation predicts that time will end |
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