Dr. John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton has put forth his own proposal.
According to quantum theory's famous uncertainty principle, the properties of a subatomic partible, like its momentum or position, remain in abeyance, in a sort of fog of possibility until someone measures it or hits it.Likewise, he has wondered oout loud if the universe bootstraps itself into being by the accumulation of billions of quantum interactions - the universe stepping on its own feet, microscopically, and bumbling itself awake. Its a notion he calls "it from bit" to emphasize a proposed connection between quantum mechanics and information theory.
One implication of Wheelers quantum genesis, if it is correct, is that the notion of the creation of the universe as something "far away and long ago" must go.
"The past is theory - it has no existence except in the records of the present."
If the creation of the universe happens outside time, then it must happen all the time.
The Big Bang is here and now, the foundation of every moment, and you are there!
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