News tagged with eternal inflation

Scientists find first evidence that many universes exist

(PhysOrg.com) -- By looking far out into space and observing what’s going on there, scientists have been led to theorize that it all started with a Big Bang, immediately followed by a brief period of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (94) | comments 140 | with audio podcast weblog




Search results for eternal inflation


Astronomy without a telescope - bubblology

One model of a hypothetical multiverse has, perhaps appropriately, some similarity to a glass of beer. Imagine an eternal false vacuum – that’s a bit like a fluid, though not all that much like a f ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Time likely to end within 5 billion years, physicists calculate

(PhysOrg.com) -- As far as astrophysicists can tell, the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and will likely continue to do so indefinitely. But now some physicists are saying that this theory, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (59) | comments 96 | with audio podcast report

Universe offers 'eternal feast,' cosmologist says

There is no such thing as a free lunch, some say, but they would be wrong. In fact, the entirety of the universe defies them. According to Stanford physics Professor Andrei Linde, one of the architects of the inflationary ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (80) | comments 0

A Cosmic Coincidence Resurrects the Cyclical Universe

Over the past five years or so, scientists have finally converged on a model of the universe that explains (or at least permits) all of its characteristics. The new cosmological model has one very surprising feature, however, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 05, 2006 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (138) | comments 0 feature


List of search results for eternal inflation