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2 the result of an uneven end to inflation:

3  ~  / l the age of precision cosmology or precisely wrong?

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12 V  inflaton field if we are here today… what are the chances we were here at rest at some earlier time? Liouville analysis, Gibbons & Turok (2006); Turok (2011)

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15 V  Vilenkin, 1983 PJS, 1983

16 how you thought inflation works

17 how inflation really works

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22 volume measures (Boltzmann brain & youngness problem) proper time measures (youngness problem) causal patch measures (predictions depends on initial conditions) scale factor measures (many versions, our universe not preferred) anthropic measures

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24 Causal horizon & flatness problems? Isotropy? Scale-invariant Perturbations? (w >> 1: ekpyrosis) Avoid eternal runaway? & Testable ! Explain more?

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