The Universe As A Quantum Fluctuation Of 'Nothing' Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: 375-6):

Ed Tryon himself revived his idea in the context of inflation in the 1980s, and in 1982 it was also taken up by Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University.  Vilenkin, indeed, takes things a step further than Tryon did in 1973.  Tryon talked about a "vacuum fluctuation," implying that some form of space-time metric existed before the Universe came into being; but Vilenkin is trying to develop a model in which space, time and matter are all created out of literally nothing at all, as a quantum fluctuation of nothing.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the idea of the space, time and matter being "created out of literally nothing at all" is also the idea of the material order of experience as an instance of material order potential.  The inclusion of space-time in Vilenkin's model is the inclusion of the spatiotemporal location and extent of processes and their participants in the instances of material order potential.