PIRSA:14010101

Simulating the Universe(s)

Johnson, M. (2014). Simulating the Universe(s). Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14010101

Johnson, Matthew. Simulating the Universe(s). Perimeter Institute, Jan. 14, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14010101 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14010101,
            doi = {10.48660/14010101},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14010101},
            author = {Johnson, Matthew},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Simulating the Universe(s)},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:14010101 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Matthew Johnson York University

Talk numberPIRSA:14010101
DOI10.48660/14010101
Collection
Talk Type Scientific Series
Subject

Abstract

The theory of eternal inflation in an inflaton potential with multiple vacua predicts that our universe is one of many bubble universes nucleating and growing inside an ever-expanding false vacuum. The collision of our bubble with another could provide an important observational signature to test this scenario. In this talk I will describe an algorithm for accurately computing the cosmological observables arising from bubble collisions directly from the Lagrangian of a single scalar field. This represents the first fully-relativistic set of predictions from an ensemble of scalar field models giving rise to eternal inflation, and I will describe on-going phenomenological studies and observational searches.