Predictions from Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
The world view suggested by quantum cosmology is that inflating universes with all possible values of the fundamental constants are spontaneously created out of nothing. I explore the consequences of the assumption that we are a ``typical'' civilization living in this metauniverse. For a class of models that do not exhibit ``eternal'' inflation, the most probable values of the constants correspond to very flat inflaton potentials, thermalization, and baryogenesis at electroweak scale, structure formation by topological defects, and an appreciable cosmological constant.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.846
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/9406010
- Bibcode:
- 1995PhRvL..74..846V
- Keywords:
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- 98.80.Hw;
- 98.80.Cq;
- Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- (revised version), 15 pages