Eternal inflation predicts that time will end
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✦ hep-th
astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phquant-ph
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cutoffeternalinflationtimeaccordingbillioncatastropheencounter
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Present treatments of eternal inflation regulate infinities by imposing a geometric cutoff. We point out that some matter systems reach the cutoff in finite time. This implies a nonzero probability for a novel type of catastrophe. According to the most successful measure proposals, our galaxy is likely to encounter the cutoff within the next 5 billion years.
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