1986/05/01 by Andrei Linde · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
paper · doi:10.1142/s0217732386000129
openalex publication_date 1986/05/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
It is shown that the evolution of the universe in the chaotic inflation scenario has no end and may have no beginning. According to this scenario, the universe consists of an exponentially large number of different mini-universes inside which all possible metastable vacuum states and all possible types of compactifications are realized.