Cosmic Inflation and the Arrow of Time

Details Cosmic Inflation and the Arrow of Time Cosmic Inflation and the Arrow of Time

2002-10-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0210527v3

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages including 10 figures. To appear in "Science and Ultimate Reality: From Quantum to Cosmos", honoring John Wheeler's 90

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Cosmic inflation claims to make the initial conditions of the standard big bang "generic". But Boltzmann taught us that the thermodynamic arrow of time arises from very non-generic ("low entropy") initial conditions. I discuss how to reconcile these perspectives. The resulting insights give an interesting way to understand inflation and also compare inflation with other ideas that claim to offer alternative theories of initial conditions.

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