The inflationary multiverse

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The inflationary multiverse

A brief history of the multiverse

The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the world.

According to its most popular version, our world mayconsist of infinitely many exponentially large parts, exhibiting different setsof low-energy laws of physics.

Since these parts are extremely large, the interior of each of them behaves as if it were a separate universe, practically unaffected by the rest of the world.

This picture, combined with the theory of eternal inflation and anthropic considerations, may help to solve many difficult problems of modern physics, including the cosmological constantproblem.

Authors

Andrei Linde

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