Fundamentals of The Multiverse Images: Conceptual renderings of
what Multiverses might look like Andrei Linde at Stanford has
brought forward the cosmological model of a multiverse, which he
calls the “self-reproducing inflationary universe.” The theory
is based on Alan Guth’s inflation model, and it includes
multiple universes woven together in some kind of spacetime
foam. Each universe exists in a closed volume of space and time.
Linde’s model, based on advanced principles of quantum physics,
defies easy visualisation. Quite simplified, it suggests quantum
fluctuations in the universe’s inflationary expansion period to
have a wavelike character. Linde theorises that these waves can
“freeze” atop one another, thus magnifying their effect. The
stacked-up quantum waves can in turn create such intense
disruptions in scalar fields -the underlying fields that
determine the behaviour of elementary particles- that they
exceed a critical mass and start procreating new inflationary
domains. The multiverse, Linde cont