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eternal inflation: a standalone construct

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Cosmology

the idea that inflation, once started, never ends everywhere, continually producing new bubble regions or universes.

In cosmology, eternal inflation refers to the idea that inflation, once started, never ends everywhere, continually producing new bubble regions or universes. This meaning comes from Vilenkin (1983) in Physical Review D.[1]

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References

Vilenkin, A. (1983). Birth of inflationary universes. Physical Review D, 27(12), 2848-2855. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.27.2848

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