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Letter: Just peeling back layers of the cosmic onion

Published 16 November 2022

From Eric Kvaalen, Les Essarts-le-Roi, France

The introduction to your interview with Laura Mersini-Houghton began by asking: “How did our universe begin?”

But, of course, her theory doesn’t tell us how it began(5 November, p 43). She says that “in the very first moment, before the universe emerged in space-time, you can think of the universe as a wave function in an abstract space of energies”. But how did that come into existence?

Issue no. 3413 published 19 November 2022

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