Nature 246, 396 - 397 (14 December 1973); doi:10.1038/246396a0

Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?

EDWARD P. TRYON

Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10021

The author proposes a big bang model in which our Universe is a fluctuation of the vacuum, in the sense of quantum field theory. The model predicts a Universe which is homogeneous, isotropic and closed, and consists equally of matter and anti-matter. All these predictions are supported by, or consistent with, present observations.

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