{"id":11418,"date":"2010-09-14T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reasons.org\/publications\/multiverse-musings-how-does-inflation-lead-to-a-multiverse\/"},"modified":"2010-09-14T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T16:22:00","slug":"multiverse-musings-how-does-inflation-lead-to-a-multiverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reasons.org\/creation\/universe\/multiverse-musings-how-does-inflation-lead-to-a-multiverse","title":{"rendered":"Multiverse Musings: How Does Inflation Lead to a Multiverse?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not to beat a dead horse, but one final issue regarding inflation needs clarification. I made this statement in a past TNRTB<\/a>: \u201cThe issue of whether inflation models also produce a multiverse<\/a> and, if so, does that multiverse argue against a Christian worldview are separate issues.\u201d I have written a number of articles articulating that many multiverse models fit comfortably within a Christian worldview<\/a> and that multiverse research strengthens the cosmological<\/a> and teleological<\/a> arguments for Christianity. However, I have not addressed the issue of how inflation leads to multiverse models.<\/p>\n

First, one must remember that inflation does not imply a change in the laws of physics<\/a>. Rather, the universe resided in a \u201chigher potential\u201d state that caused a rapidly expanding space-time (inflation). As this potential decayed to a lower energy state, the universe heated up and transitioned to the expansion rate we see today. Multiverse models arise as cosmologists seek to understand this transition in more detail.<\/p>\n

The transition from inflation to expansion must occur in such a fashion so as to produce the extreme homogeneity of the universe reflected in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). But the rapid expansion of space in the high potential and the fact that various regions of space decay to the lower potential at different times make the homogeneity feature difficult to produce. Even with all the issues that inflation solved, it did not gain acceptance for many years because of this \u201cgraceful exit\u201d problem. <\/p>\n

Physicist Alan Guth<\/a> provided an interesting solution to this problem nearly two decades ago, but it changed the way cosmologists thought about the created realm. Most people not trained in cosmology typically think about the universe development in this progression:<\/p>\n