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dhillonv10
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Hi all,
Recently there was a paper out by Susskind et. al on the topological phases of eternal inflation. We know of eternal inflation to populate our multiverse but in that paper Susskind talks about different kinds of eternal inflation, if one pays close attention to those words, does that imply that different eternal inflations we get different multiverses?? For a moment let's take the example of a bubble-bath, that's commonly used to explain the idea of the multiverse, so if one eternal inflation A filled the bath A' with everything (our multiverse) does that mean that a variation B of eternal inflation will fill a bath B' with everything? If so then what would this structure be called and is that the end? I remember watching this video on why there are 11 dimensions in M-theory and basically the core idea there was that when you get to counting up all 11 degrees of freedom, that's it, you've encompassed everything, there's nothing left to include so 11 would be all, could it be the same way for this postulated bigger structure of the multiverse?? I would really appreciate if someone can explain this to me in more detail, and as always links to papers and such as much appreciated.
Recently there was a paper out by Susskind et. al on the topological phases of eternal inflation. We know of eternal inflation to populate our multiverse but in that paper Susskind talks about different kinds of eternal inflation, if one pays close attention to those words, does that imply that different eternal inflations we get different multiverses?? For a moment let's take the example of a bubble-bath, that's commonly used to explain the idea of the multiverse, so if one eternal inflation A filled the bath A' with everything (our multiverse) does that mean that a variation B of eternal inflation will fill a bath B' with everything? If so then what would this structure be called and is that the end? I remember watching this video on why there are 11 dimensions in M-theory and basically the core idea there was that when you get to counting up all 11 degrees of freedom, that's it, you've encompassed everything, there's nothing left to include so 11 would be all, could it be the same way for this postulated bigger structure of the multiverse?? I would really appreciate if someone can explain this to me in more detail, and as always links to papers and such as much appreciated.