false vacuum

All you need there is a region of false vacuum."

"So the false vacuum makes a new space as it expands."

Simply put, the false vacuum is a local minimum, but not the lowest energy state, even though it may remain stable for some time.

Under some circumstances, they surmised, the false vacuum might collapse from its present energy state to a lower one.

How can one universe exert something on another that cannot exist in the "false vacuum" between them?

In the supercooled state, a false vacuum is produced.

If the Earth exists in a region of space known as a false vacuum, it could collapse into a lower-energy state at any point.

This dent represents a false vacuum, a dip which deepens very fast.

And with each change, with the decay of each false vacuum, energy was released.

In the case where , which is known as the false vacuum, the strong energy condition is violated.

The strong energy condition is obeyed by all normal/Newtonian matter, but a false vacuum can violate it.

The fragments of false vacuum will collapse.

Finally, there's the matter of the false vacuum and whether or not it's more vacuum-like or fluid-like.

Alternative suggestions include a false vacuum catastrophe or a Big Rip as possible ends to the universe.

Chaotic Inflation theory suggests that the universe may be in either a false vacuum or a true vacuum state.

She tried to follow the way the false vacuum formed a "bubble wall" within ordinary space, which was the "true vacuum" where everybody lived.

A false vacuum is given rise when quantum fluctuations would not allow for space-time to be a true vacuum.

Alan Guth's original model of inflation involved a "false vacuum" phase with positive vacuum energy.

During the early universe, a period of cosmic inflation occurred, where space expanded very rapidly (in a false vacuum state dominated by an "inflationary field").

If the vacuum is not in its lowest energy state (a false vacuum), it could tunnel into a lower energy state.

In this model, instead of tunneling out of a false vacuum state, inflation occurred by a scalar field rolling down a potential energy hill.

Then the universe expanded exponentially (inflated) until the false vacuum decayed, and the universe became hot again.

If this is true for space-time, then that would mean that S-T is in a false vacuum.

We don't know how many bubbles of inflationary universes might have seeded in some sort of over-arching background called a "false vacuum."

Bubbles of true vacuum spontaneously form in the sea of false vacuum and rapidly begin expanding at the speed of light.