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Sun 22 Mar, 2020 01:41 pm
According to the model of cosmic inflation, while the decay if the false vacuum triggered the Big Bang in one part of expanding space, that decay did not happen in all of expanding space- because not all of expanding space decays at the same time. Those varying rates of decay provide the special key that enables multiple universes to be generated without end. Each decay generates a single so-called "pocket universe" or a connected region of space-time. Because the rate of expansion is much faster than the rate of decays, new regions are created with potentials for new pocket universes. Once again, it is because the rate of expansion of false-vacuum space, which stretches space, exceeds the rate of decays of false-vacuum space, which generates Big Bangs, that the process of generating multiple universes never stops. The pocket universe we call home is 100 billion trillion times larger than everything we can see with our largest telescopes. Thus the vast expanse of our visible universe is but an insignificant speck within just our own inflating pocket universe among an innumerable or even infinite number of other pocket universes.