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Inflation again?
Inflation early in cosmology has to be based on some
inflaton field. Any field with a false vacuum would suffice, since vacuum energy is simply equivalent to a cosmological constant (Zeldovich, 1968). Two questions arise: 1) At a later time when electro-weak interaction was broken, was there again (to some extent) inflation? That would of course be after 10^(-12)s, whereas original inflation is before 10^(35)s. 2) Since currently we observe a cosmological constant, are we perhaps still in a false vacuum? -- Jos |
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