Sentences with phrase «in eternal inflation»

The alternative, they say, is that applying cut - offs is simply not the right way to calculate probabilities in eternal inflation.

«If you don't like the cut - off, then you have no way of making predictions and deciding what's probable in eternal inflation.»

For the moment, Guth says he is comfortable with not fully understanding how probabilities work in eternal inflation.

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«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.

«The usual theory of eternal inflation predicts that globally our universe is like an infinite fractal, with a mosaic of different pocket universes, separated by an inflating ocean,» Hawking said in an interview last fall, according to the University of Cambridge.

That inflation has now swayed the consensus before do not exclude that there is a high degree of dilution in LCDM, which is correct since 2004, whether or not you refer to ekpyrotic scenario (now in high stress) or chaotic / eternal inflation.

A full theory of eternal inflation came together in Carroll's mind in 2004, while he was attending a five - month workshop on cosmology at the University of California at Santa Barbara's famous Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics with his student Jennifer Chen.

The trick needed to make eternal inflation work was to find a generic starting point: an easy - to - achieve condition that would occur infinitely many times and allow eternal inflation to flow in both directions.»

In the late 1980s Guth and other physicists, most notably Andrei Linde, now at Stanford, saw that inflation might happen over and over in a process of «eternal inflation.&raquIn the late 1980s Guth and other physicists, most notably Andrei Linde, now at Stanford, saw that inflation might happen over and over in a process of «eternal inflation.&raquin a process of «eternal inflation.»

Some physicists have long embraced the notion that the extra dimensions of string theory play a key role in shaping the properties of new universes spawned during eternal chaotic inflation.

The same process will occur in each of those new universes in turn, a process Linde calls eternal chaotic inflation.

Black - hole - generated universes differ from the ones associated with eternal inflation in an important regard.

Those laws govern the something - from - nothing moment of creation that gives rise to our universe, and they also govern eternal inflation, which takes over in the first nanosecond of time.

«In current approaches to understanding eternal inflation, the cut - off and only the cut - off defines what is possible, likely, unlikely and impossible,» he says.

If the no - copy assumption is false, then there's no fundamental reason why there can't be copies of you elsewhere in the external reality — indeed, both eternal inflation and unitary quantum mechanics provide mechanisms for creating them.

All of these universes are believed to come into existence through a process called eternal inflation, in which at least one universe continually expands at an incredible rate, while others form and grow within it like bubbles.

Rachel Courtland reports that a paradox exists in the theory of eternal inflation, which gives rise to the multiverse, because...