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Is our Universe likely to decay within 20 billion years?

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 78, Issue 6, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063535

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  1. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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Observations that we are highly unlikely to be vacuum fluctuations suggest that our universe is decaying at a rate faster than the asymptotic volume growth rate, in order that there not be too many observers produced by vacuum fluctuations to make our observations highly atypical. An asymptotic linear e-folding time of roughly 16 Gyr (deduced from current measurements of cosmic acceleration) would then imply that our universe is more likely than not to decay within a time that is less than 19 Gyr in the future.

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