Re: Open universe (and how to fix it)

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Aug 29 1998 - 06:04:56 MDT


At 12:16 PM 8/28/98 +0200, Anders wrote:

>Of course, nobody has ever found a
>monopole yet, but at least it seems theoretically possible to make
>baby universes this way.

Last time I looked, the canonical inflationary account said there'd be a
maximum of one monopole inside each local spacetime bubble, which helps
explain why we haven't stumbled on a monopole as yet. Damn! Just when you
need two to rub together to get your fire started...

Damien Broderick



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