Permeated by such unfamiliar values of various Higgs fields, these universes would differ from ours considerably, as schematically illustrated in Figure 3.7. This would make a journey through the Inflationary Multiverse a perilous undertaking. Many of the other universes would not be places you’d want high on your itinerary, because the conditions would be incompatible with the biological processes essential to survival, giving new meaning to the saying that there’s no place like home. In the Inflationary Multiverse, our universe could well be an island oasis in a gigantic but largely
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