sakkmesterke/Alamy
LAST month, I wrote a column about the possibility that space-time is eternally inflating, and I was admittedly caught off guard by the amount of attention it got on social media. I am pleased that so many people share my interest in cosmology and specifically the first few seconds of space-time as we understand it.
At the same time, I was troubled by a supposed summary of the column that I saw in another publication which claimed I was proposing a new theory for the origins of the universe. This suggests to me that I should continue my discussion of…
