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I've found several conflicting estimates of how many times larger, in volume, the entire universe is than the observable universe.
http://cseligman.com/text/galaxies/expansion.htm" says "hundreds or thousands"
http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/phys10/universe.pdf" claims "125, 000 times larger"
Wikipedia puts it at 10^23 times both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Guth" .
And http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14098?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14098" New Scientist article claims 10^100
All of these numbers are wildly different. I'm having trouble finding anything that I would consider a "good source," and am unsure how recently there have been revised estimates of cosmic inflation. I'm very much a layman on this subject and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
http://cseligman.com/text/galaxies/expansion.htm" says "hundreds or thousands"
http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/phys10/universe.pdf" claims "125, 000 times larger"
Wikipedia puts it at 10^23 times both http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Guth" .
And http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14098?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14098" New Scientist article claims 10^100
All of these numbers are wildly different. I'm having trouble finding anything that I would consider a "good source," and am unsure how recently there have been revised estimates of cosmic inflation. I'm very much a layman on this subject and would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.
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