2005/12/13 by T. Banks, Matthew C. Johnson, M. Johnson +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/0512141
JHEP3 Latex, 37 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2005/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2005/12/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present an interpretation of the physics of space-times undergoing eternal inflation by repeated nucleation of bubbles. In many cases the physics can be interpreted in terms of the quantum mechanics of a system with a finite number of states. If this interpretation is correct, the conventional picture of these space-times is misleading.