Physics & Cosmology

Eternal Inflation

alternative Contemporary 1983

A extension of inflation theory suggesting that inflation never fully stops, endlessly spawning new “bubble universes” — the mechanism behind many multiverse proposals.

Proponents

Andrei Linde, Alexander Vilenkin

Evidence For

A natural mathematical consequence of many inflation models once taken to their logical extent.

Evidence Against

No observable evidence of other bubble universes is possible even in principle by definition, raising the question of falsifiability.

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