False Vacuum and True Vacuum
Variants of the bubble universe model postulate multiple false vacuum states, which result in lower-energy false-vacuum "progeny" universes spawned, which in turn produce true vacuum state progeny universes within themselves.
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—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 11:1.
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