Instead, Guth suggests the paradox could just be an artefact of the measurement technique, since the exponential nature of
eternal inflation means that newer universes will always be more common than older ones.
Not exact matches
«When we trace the evolution of our universe backwards in time, at some point we arrive at the threshold of
eternal inflation, where our familiar notion of time ceases to have any
meaning,» Hertog told Cambridge.
By 1982, a couple of years after Guth's breakthrough, Vilenkin had a realization of his own: The process of
inflation had to be
eternal,
meaning that once it started, it never fully stopped.