And I’m big bad E and I’m everywhere, so just throw your hands up in the air

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{ 1. Wai Lin Tse | 2. Jennilee Marigomen }

If the universe can be eternal into the future, is it possible that it is also eternal into the past? Here I will describe a recent theorem which shows, under plausible assumptions, that the answer to this question is no.

{ Alan H. Guth, Eternal inflation and its implications, 6. Does Inflation Need a Beginning?, 2007 | Continue reading }

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