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We are now going to summarize what we have learned about the universe, starting
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To be precise, antineutrinos are still present in the universe today, in about the same amounts as neutrinos. They did not annihilate because they interact so weakly.
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Inflation is not eternal in some special energy landscapes, but such models appear to be rather artificial.
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The initial nucleation process can be regarded as the state of “nothing” branching into embryo universes with different initial conditions. This is similar to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where each of the spawned universes will further branch into a multitude of parallel universes.
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Note that our classification of multiverse levels is somewhat different from that of Max Tegmark in his book “Our Mathematical Universe”.
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Tegmark actually goes further than that and asserts that the universe is a mathematical structure.
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Perlov, D., Vilenkin, A. (2017). The Big Picture. In: Cosmology for the Curious. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57040-2_24
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