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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!chnews!sedona!bhoughto
  2. From: bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.physics
  4. Subject: Re: quantum cosmology
  5. Date: 15 Dec 1992 19:28:40 GMT
  6. Organization: Intel Corp., Chandler, Arizona
  7. Lines: 15
  8. Message-ID: <1glbl8INNi2b@chnews.intel.com>
  9. References: <1992Dec13.171644.74@vms.huji.ac.il> <1992Dec14.194012.20679@galois.mit.edu>
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  11.  
  12. In article <1992Dec14.194012.20679@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez) writes:
  13. >In article <1992Dec13.171644.74@vms.huji.ac.il> tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes:
  14. >>A question about quantum cosmology from a non-physicist.
  15. >>If space and time came into existence with the big bang, in
  16. >>what would the quantum fluctuation have occured?
  17.  
  18. Probability.
  19.  
  20. >This is one of those questions they only tell you the answer to when you
  21. >get your PhD, and they make you promise not to tell anyone.
  22.  
  23. Probably.
  24.  
  25.                 --Blair
  26.                   "Probely."
  27.