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Cosmological inflation refers to an era of expansion that lasted for approximately $10^{-34}$ seconds, during which the universe expanded by a factor of approximately $10^{26}$ in every direction. This is different from ordinary space expansion and from the acceleration in expansion we experience now and questions tagged by inflation should pertain to this era and not be about the expansion of the universe in general.

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How can a bubble universes within eternally inflating space be both finite and infinite?

Both Brian Greene (The Hidden Reality) and Will Kinney (An Infinity of Worlds) describe an eternally inflating multiverse that surrounds bubble universes of non-inflating space. We reside in one such …
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How does the quantum landscape of Mersini-Houghton's multiverse theory become physical?

In her new book (Before the Big Bang), Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton elegantly describes the "quantum landscape of the multiverse", an abstract quantum field of energies where an inflaton (theoretical pa …
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