The Cosmic Cookbook entry for an inflationary universe, on the other hand, looks as simple as meringue. ... Nevertheless, I will dismiss the gargantuan mass density of the false vacuum as a mere engineering problem, boldly assuming that some civilization in the distant, unforeseeable future will be capable of creating such densities. ... This part of the problem, therefore, will be left for our descendants to solve. ... One hope for evading this problem involves a peculiar consequence of quantum theory, the process of quantum tunneling. ... But calculations show that each time a false vacuum b...

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