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tolman%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Kenneth Tolman) writes:


>  I am looking for actual specific references to the idea that the start
>of the universe may have been a quantum fluctuation.

If I remember correctly, inflation involves quantum fluctuations to get
to the false vacuum state, like in the Casimir effect...in any case, I'm
pretty sure inflation is what you're looking for.  Just look in any reasonably
recent book on cosmology for `inflationary models' or something like that.
Note that in this case the universe doesn't actually _start_ with quantum
fluctuations; they don't come around until 10^(-35) second or so later.

Or maybe not.

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