Eternal inflation predicts that time will end
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Author(s)
Bousso, Raphael
Freivogel, Benjamin W.
Leichenauer, Stefan
Rosenhaus, Vladimir
Date Issued
January 2011
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
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.
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Abstract
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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.023525
