What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 3: A Universe From Nothing

The cosmic microwave background as mapped by WMAP. The no-boundary proposal naturally predicts the conditions that produce a CMB like this one. (Public domain, NASA / WMAP Science Team)

Run Hawking’s machinery and out pops something startling: the most likely universe looks an awful lot like ours, complete with inflation, a low-entropy beginning, and an arrow of time. All of cosmology, falling out for free. Almost.

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