Eternal inflation and the initial singularity
- 23 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 72 (21) , 3305-3308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.3305
Abstract
It is shown that a physically reasonable spacetime that is eternally inflating to the future must possess an initial singularity.Keywords
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