Dynamic selection of string vacua

According to Laura Mersini-Broughton string theory implies that a myriad of possible 'starter universes' are appearing all the time, but only ones that start with high energy and low entropy survive to undergo rapid cosmological inflation - a process she terms 'dynamic selection'.

The successful 'survivor universes' are selected by allowing the wave function of the universe to propagate  on a vast 'landscape' of vacua implied by string theory - up to 10500. Mersini-Broughton contends that this explanation avoids the need for anthropic selection inherent in other multiverse explanations.

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