[1404.

1207] Spontaneous creation of the universe from

nothing
arxiv.org /abs/1404.1207

Abstract: An interesting idea is that the universe could be spontaneously created from nothing, but no rigorous proof
has been given. In this paper, we present such a proof based on the analytic solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt
equation (WDWE). Explicit solutions of the WDWE for the special operator ordering factor p=-2 (or 4) show that,
once a small true vacuum bubble is created by quantum uctuations of the metastable false vacuum, it can expand
exponentially no matter whether the bubble is closed, at or open. The exponential expansion will end when the
bubble becomes large and thus the early universe appears. With the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectory theory, we
show explicitly that it is the quantum potential that plays the role of the cosmological constant and provides the
power for the exponential expansion of the true vacuum bubble. So it is clear that the birth of the early universe
completely depends on the quantum nature of the theory.

Comments:

Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic
Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); Quantum Physics
(quant-ph)

Journal reference: Phys. Rev. D 89, 083510 (2014)

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.89.083510

Cite as: arXiv:1404.1207 [gr-qc]

(or arXiv:1404.1207v1 [gr-qc] for this version)

Submission history
From: Qing-Yu Cai [view email]
[v1] Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:09:09 GMT (9kb)

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