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SUMMARY:Inflation and the multiverse - Jaume Garriga (Barcelona)
DTSTART:20110309T141500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Jock McOrist
DESCRIPTION:Primordial inflation provides a sensible microphysical explana
 tion for the properties of our observable universe on large scales. Also\,
  the present universe seems to have entered a stage of low energy inflatio
 n. In theories with several vacua\, transitions between\ninflating vacua a
 nd neighboring ones lead to the picture of an eternally inflating multiver
 se\, where regions with different properties of the low energy physics can
  be found sitting next to each other. I will review the\nstatus of the mat
 hematical description of the multiverse\, some outstanding questions it ra
 ises\, and some avenues for a resolution of these questions.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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