9 | Solo -- Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Can Inflation Go on Forever?
Inflation is a theory wherein in the very, very early universe, there was a tiny moment of time when the universe underwent a hyperfast period of accelerated expansion. Inflation can end in some regions of the universe, but it doesn't have to end everywhere. The bordegut volenkin theorem does not prove the universe had a beginning. It just proves that inflation was not eternal toward the past. So we don't know. Is the answer to the question, did the universe come into existence? If it did, then you'd be forgiven for thinking that's a good reason to think something ted it, right? But if it lasted forever, then that's a less tempting
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