ETERNAL CHAOTIC INFLATION

@article{Linde1986ETERNALCI,
  title={ETERNAL CHAOTIC INFLATION},
  author={Andrei Linde},
  journal={Modern Physics Letters A},
  year={1986},
  volume={1},
  pages={81-85}
}
  • Andrei Linde
  • Published 21 May 1986
  • Physics
  • Modern Physics Letters A
It is shown that the evolution of the universe in the chaotic inflation scenario has no end and may have no beginning. According to this scenario, the universe consists of an exponentially large number of different mini-universes inside which all possible metastable vacuum states and all possible types of compactifications are realized. 
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