Showing papers by "Alan H. Guth published in 1990"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the possibility that a new universe can be created by producing a small bubble of false vacuum, which would then evolve to a larger bubble of the same mass.
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TL;DR: The dynamics of a localized, O(3)-symmetric region of false vacuum, separated from an infinite region of true vacuum by a domain wall of non-negligible width, is studied through numerical general relativity.
Abstract: The dynamics of a localized, O(3)-symmetric region of false vacuum, separated from an infinite region of true vacuum by a domain wall of non-negligible width, is studied through numerical general relativity. The spacetime trajectories of the thick'' domain-wall solutions are compared with the predictions of a thin-wall approximation for bubbles larger than the Schwarzschild radius, and found to be in good agreement over the time intervals studied.
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