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Quantum cosmology models allow universes to spontaneously originate from a quantum vacuum without prior spacetime.
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Theoretical physics frameworks such as quantum cosmology and path-integral models allow for scenarios where universes originate spontaneously via quantum fluctuations or tunnelling from a state without prior spacetime.

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Wikipedia: Quantum cosmology
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Wikipedia: Quantum vacuum state
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Wikipedia: Cosmic inflation
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OpenAIRE: Loop Quantum Cosmology: Effective theories and oscillating universes
2008 · cited by 0
Discusses quantum effects allowing non-singular emergent scenarios for the origin of the universe in loop quantum cosmology.
OpenAIRE: Solitons as Key Parts to Produce a Universe in the Laboratory
2007 · cited by 0
Notes models where past-non-singular regions of spacetime tunnel into an inflating universe using quantum proposals.
OpenAIRE: Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics
1996 · cited by 0
Mentions tunnelling possibilities and creation of universes in the context of quantum cosmology.
JHEP: De Sitter Bra-Ket wormholes
2025 · cited by 0
Analyzes gravitational path integrals for initial states of the universe.
Phys.Lett.B: A small Universe
2024 · cited by 0
Discusses the no-boundary proposal for the universe's origin.
NASA Technical Reports Server: Initial conditions and quantum cosmology
2019 · cited by 0
Examines quantum cosmology and initial conditions via Euclidean sums over histories.
NASA Technical Reports Server: Quantum cosmology. I
2019 · cited by 0
Applies Hamiltonian methods to homogeneous cosmological models.
NASA Technical Reports Server: Gauge invariant quantum cosmology
2019 · cited by 0
Reviews path-integral quantization and boundary conditions in quantum cosmology.
Physical Review. D.: Possible origin of α -vacua as the initial state of the Universe
2025 · cited by 0
Studies the Euclidean path integral approach and creation of universes from nothing.
Everything we examined (24)
  1. Wikipedia: Quantum cosmologyreferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: Quantum vacuum statereferencesupports
  3. Wikipedia: Cosmic inflationreferencesupports
  4. OpenAIRE: Noether symmetries in extended gravity quantum cosmologypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. OpenAIRE: Loop Quantum Cosmology: Effective theories and oscillating universespeer-reviewedsupports
  6. OpenAIRE: Braneworld Graviton as a Multiverse Bridgepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  7. OpenAIRE: Solitons as Key Parts to Produce a Universe in the Laboratorypeer-reviewedsupports
  8. OpenAIRE: Black Holes, Cosmology and Extra Dimensionspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. OpenAIRE: Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physicspeer-reviewedsupports
  10. Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.: Noether symmetries in extended gravity quantum cosmologypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Phys.Rept.: The degree of fine-tuning in our universe — and otherspeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  12. JHEP: De Sitter Bra-Ket wormholespeer-reviewedsupports
  13. Class.Quant.Grav.: Dynamical eigenfunctions and critical density in loop quantum cosmologypeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Phys.Lett.B: A small Universepeer-reviewedsupports
  15. NASA Technical Reports Server: Initial conditions and quantum cosmologyprimary-datasupports
  16. NASA Technical Reports Server: Quantum cosmology. Iprimary-datasupports
  17. NASA Technical Reports Server: Gauge invariant quantum cosmologyprimary-datasupports
  18. NASA Technical Reports Server: Physics through the 1990s: Gravitation, cosmology and cosmic-ray physicsprimary-datano side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  19. NASA Technical Reports Server: Hamiltonian cosmology.primary-datano side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  20. Physical Review D: Probabilistic inference in very large universespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. OSTI: Absolute entropy and the observer’s no-boundary statepeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OSTI: On tests for baby universes in AdS/CFTpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  23. Physical Review. D.: Possible origin of α -vacua as the initial state of the Universepeer-reviewedsupports
  24. High Energy Physics: The Baby Universe is Fine and the CFT Knows It: On Holography for Closed Universespeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
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