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must have a beginning and that a period of time must precede it. This represents a problem for the theory of inflation because, without a theory to explain conditions before inflation, it is not possible to determine how likely it is for inflation to have occurred.
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on his new book, "Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes" on the podcast and public radio interview program
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from pursuing a graduate degree. Then he was drafted into a building brigade and later worked at the state zoo as a
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In 1976, Vilenkin immigrated to the United States as a Jewish refugee, obtaining his
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TO FIND HERSELF AS A MUSICIAN, ALINA SIMONE FIRST HAD TO FIND HER RUSSIAN ROOTS
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from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially
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by A. Vilenkin, E. P. S. Shellard (paperback – July 31, 2000)
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for 25 years, Vilenkin has written over 260 publications.
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Borde, Arvind; Guth, Alan; Vilenkin, Alexander (2003).
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by Vilenkin on "Proving the Universe Had a Beginning"
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while conducting physics research in his spare time.
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Vilenkin (Macmillan, July 2006) 25: 811:20th-century Ukrainian physicists 593:"Birth of Inflationary Universes" 493:Tufts School of Arts and Sciences 451:American Men and Women of Science 292:Алекса́ндр Владимирович Виле́нкин 816:21st-century American physicists 581:", Stanford News, 01 April 2009. 36: 1: 666:10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.151301 372:presented the first model of 831:University at Buffalo alumni 591:Vilenkin, Alexander (1983). 468:Tufts Institute of Cosmology 47:biography of a living person 384:, showing that a period of 382:Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem 241:Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem 74:must be removed immediately 862: 783:February 22, 2019, at the 548:November 17, 2017, at the 392:He also further developed 299: 291: 277: 250: 166: 161: 836:Tufts University faculty 617:10.1103/PhysRevD.27.2848 552:", Tufts Magazine, 2010. 489:"Named Professorships" 61:Please help by adding 841:American cosmologists 695:Alexander, Vilenkin. 563:The Mediocre Universe 453:, Thomson Gale, 2005. 324:University of Kharkiv 308:theoretical physicist 227:University at Buffalo 722:"APS Fellow Archive" 561:Freedman, David H. 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