Colliding bubble universes in eternal inflation
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Author(s)
Thomas, Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Cabot)
Advisor(s)
Alan H. Guth.
Date Issued
2011
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We briefly summarize arguments for inflation and discuss eternal inflation. We then discuss the motion of domain walls and null shells that form in two-bubble collision processes in both the global and in-bubble FRW coordinates. Comments are made regarding possible observational signals.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2011.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-50).
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Physics.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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