Open Inflation
arXiv:astro-ph/9511078 · doi:10.1016/0920-5632(96)00226-5
Abstract
Open Inflation has recently been suggested as a possible way out of the age crisis caused by observations of a large rate of expansion of the universe, in conflict with the existence of very old globular clusters. It proposes that our local patch of the universe originated in a quantum tunneling event, with the formation of a single bubble within which our universe inflated to almost flatness. I review the different models proposed together with their predictions for the amplitude of temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background.
RevTex, 3 pages, Contribution to TAUP '95 Conference Proceedings, Toledo, Sept 1995. also available on WWW at http://star.maps.susx.ac.uk/index.html