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Old June 8th 14, 09:51 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Jos Bergervoet
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Default 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?

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