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Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by wlesieutre on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:17PM (#21278351)
> Eternal inflation, if correct, states that there is indeed something which our universe is expanding into.

I don't think that's right. The fact that space gets bigger doesn't mean that space is inside something, it just means space gets bigger.

Disclaimer: not an astrophysicist

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? by Filligree on Thursday October 17, 2019 @04:32AM (#21280013)
Space does get bigger, but that's separate. What eternal inflation is claiming is that some fourteen billion years ago there was a false vacuum collapse, and we're living inside the bubble that resulted, but said bubble is itself still expanding.

It won't ever get anywhere, since space outside the bubble is inflating much, much faster than inside. It means there's a border to our universe, which is expending at lightspeed, but it's far outside the Hubble horizon and thus entirely unreachable.