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It was in 1969 that Tryon, doing a bit of woolgathering during a talk by a visiting celebrity physicist at Columbia University, suddenly blurted out, "Suppose the universe is just a quantum fluctuation?" This was greeted with a good deal of harrumphing by the several Nobel laureates present. What the callow Tryon was suggesting was that the entire cosmos might have bounded into existence out of nowhere -- in complete accordance with the laws of physics. Of all the nothing theorists, the one who appears to have got closest to real creatio ex nihilo is Alex Vilenkin, a Ukranian emigre cosmologist now at Tufts University. When Vilenkin says the universe arose from nothing, he means it. "Nothing is nothing," he told me over the phone. "Not just no matter. No space, no time." (Vilenkin suggested that I think of nascent universes as little bubbles forming in a glass of champagne.) By a quantum process called "tunneling," which permits the breaching of otherwise impassable barriers, space-time emerged from nothing into a manifold of potential universes, and thence into reality.
גם Tryion וגם Vilenkin (יחד עם Hawking ו- Hartle) הציעו מודלים לפיהם היקום נוצר מכלום. גם אם יש ויכוחים על הפרטים, המודל הבסיסי מקובל מאוד בין הפיזיקאים.