Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?

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dc.creatorPage, Don N.
dc.date2006-10-09
dc.date2008-08-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:45:12Z
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dc.descriptionObservations that we are highly unlikely to be vacuum fluctuations suggest that our universe is decaying at a rate faster than the asymptotic volume growth rate, in order that there not be too many observers produced by vacuum fluctuations to make our observations highly atypical. An asymptotic linear e-folding time of roughly 16 Gyr (deduced from current measurements of cosmic acceleration) would then imply that our universe is more likely than not to decay within a time that is less than 19 Gyr in the future.
dc.description12 pages, LaTeX, Reference 28 corrected with the name of Marina Shmakova, which I'm sorry I overlooked copying previously
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610079
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0610079
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D78:063535,2008
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063535
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221013
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleIs Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?
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