Eternal Inflation, past and future
| dc.creator | Aguirre, Anthony | |
| dc.date | 2007-12-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:47:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:47:16Z | |
| dc.description | Cosmological inflation, if it occurred, radically alters the picture of the `big bang', which would merely point to reheating at the end of inflation. Moreover, this reheating may be only local, so that inflation continues elsewhere and forever, continually spawning big-bang-like regions. This chapter reviews this idea of `eternal inflation', then focuses on what this may mean for the ultimate beginning of the universe. In particular, I will argue that given eternal inflation, the universe may be free of a cosmological initial singularity, might be eternal (and eternally inflating) to the past, and might obey an interesting sort of cosmological time-symmetry. | |
| dc.description | 38 pp., 6 color figures. Contribution to R. Vaas (ed.): Beyond the Big Bang. Springer 2008 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0571 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0571 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/143539 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Eternal Inflation, past and future | |
| dc.type | text |