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1. True Vacuum States

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   True Vacuum Selection and the Cosmic Horizon
   The selection of which specific true vacuum state is realized across the cosmos is hypothesized to be related to early universe conditions. In inflationary cosmology, rapid expansion may have effectively "frozen" the field configuration in certain spatial regions before a global minimum could be universally established.
   This process results in the existence of a "patchwork vacuum" multiverse. Regions separated by distances greater than the current [cosmological …