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...
Main Authors: | Bousso, Raphael, Freivogel, Benjamin W., Leichenauer, Stefan, Rosenhaus, Vladimir |
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Other Authors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics |
Format: | Article |
Language: | en_US |
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American Physical Society
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63093 |
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