• DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2008/01/012
Corpus ID: 14780877

The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

@article{Easther2008TheES,
  title={The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind},
  author={R. Easther and E. Lim},
  journal={Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics},
  year={2008},
  volume={2008},
  pages={012}
}

R. Easther, E. Lim

Published 2008

Physics

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

We extend the worldline measure for pocket formation in eternal inflation to allow for time-ordered bubble formation. Such a time-ordering is equivalent to imposing a preferred time-slicing on the 'parent' de Sitter space. Using this measure, we describe a covariant version of the youngness paradox and show that the youngness paradox is a gauge artifact if the parent spacetime is an unbroken de Sitter space, due to the lack of an explicit time-ordering for the bubble nucleation events. We then… CONTINUE READING

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