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The Inflationary Theory Landscape
Inflation happens faster, and you create more volume of space. For very reasonable values of the parimeters, inflation never really ends. It will end in some region of space, but somewhere else. The inflaton field, as we call it, this new scaler field that we invent, it quantum fluctuated up the hill. And these potentials are very flat, so it's not that hard to bounce up thehill. When you bounce up the hill, you now have more energy density. Inflation is a natural part of inflationary theory. You don't need to work very hard to make inflation be eternal. So that's already giving you a kind of a multi verse because