Eternal inflation
Inflación eterna
- Date
- 1983 · confidence medium
- Place
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Credited to
- Paul Steinhardt
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Extension of cosmic inflation theory in which the inflationary expansion never ends globally but keeps spawning infinite bubble-universe regions beyond our observational reach; proposed by Paul Steinhardt.
What it led to
- multiverse theory
- debates over the falsifiability of inflationary cosmology
- Linde's chaotic inflation models
- contemporary theoretical cosmology