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First Observational Tests of Eternal Inflation

Abstract

The eternal inflation scenario predicts that our observable Universe resides inside a single bubble embedded in a vast inflating multiverse. We present the first observational tests of eternal inflation, performing a search for cosmological signatures of collisions with other bubble universes in cosmic microwave background data from the WMAP satellite. We conclude that the WMAP 7-year data do not warrant augmenting the cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant with bubble collisions, constraining the average number of detectable bubble collisions on the full sky N¯s<1.6 at 68% C.L. Data from the Planck satellite can be used to more definitively test the bubble-collision hypothesis.


Publication:
Physical Review Letters
Pub Date:
August 2011
DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.071301

10.48550/arXiv.1012.1995

arXiv:
arXiv:1012.1995
Bibcode:
2011PhRvL.107g1301F
Keywords:
  • 98.80.Es;
  • 98.70.Vc;
  • 98.80.Cq;
  • Observational cosmology;
  • Background radiations;
  • Particle-theory and field-theory models of the early Universe;
  • Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics;
  • High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
  • High Energy Physics - Theory
E-Print:
Companion to arXiv:1012.3667. 5 pages, 2 figures. v3: replaced with version accepted by PRL. Significant extensions to the Bayesian pipeline to do the full-sky non-Gaussian source detection problem (previously restricted to patches). Note that this has changed the normalization of evidence values reported previously, as full-sky priors are now employed, but the conclusions remain unchanged
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