Eternal inflation predicts that time will end

Ben Freivogel; Raphael Bousso; Stefan Leichenauer; Vladimir Rosenhaus

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arxiv 1009.4698 v1 pith:6INWOR2P submitted 2010-09-23 hep-th astro-ph.COgr-qchep-phquant-ph

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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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