Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-02-23 v2 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
Observations that we are highly unlikely to be vacuum fluctuations suggest that our universe is decaying at a rate faster than the asymptotic volume growth rate, in order that there not be too many observers produced by vacuum fluctuations to make our observations highly atypical. An asymptotic linear e-folding time of roughly 16 Gyr (deduced from current measurements of cosmic acceleration) would then imply that our universe is more likely than not to decay within a time that is less than 19 Gyr in the future.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610079,
title = {Is Our Universe Likely to Decay within 20 Billion Years?},
author = {Don N. Page},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610079},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, LaTeX, Reference 28 corrected with the name of Marina Shmakova, which I'm sorry I overlooked copying previously