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Letter: The whoops particle

Published 11 April 2012

From Luce Gilmore

It is probably just as well that creating inflaton particles is so resoundingly out of our reach (17 March, p 32).

Those things, linked to the early expansion of the universe, are capable of making something inflate by a factor of about 1050 in only 10-33 of a second, to the likely detriment of everything else.

Cambridge, UK

Issue no. 2860 published 14 April 2012

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