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26 - Did Inflation Rip Apart the Early Universe?

Why This Universe?

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Why This Universe

The inflationary theory of the multiverse says that all universes exist on the same plane of space time. But each universe is causally disconnected from all the other universes because of this huge distance between them. Dan Hooper: While we can never go into these other universes and learn about them directly, it could be that by learning more about the theory of inflation we could learn more about the prediction of this kind of multiverse.

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