The Universe As Vacuum Fluctuation Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Gribbin (1989: 372):

But one of the most dramatic implications of the idea of inflation in its 1985 form is that the whole Universe may have appeared literally out of nothing at all, created as a quantum fluctuation in the same way that quantum uncertainty allows a virtual pair of particles to appear and exist for a short time before annihilating.

The idea surfaced in Nature in December 1973, in the form of a scientific paper from Edward Tryon of Hunter College, City University of New York.  Tryon proposed what he called "the simplest and most appealing" Big Bang model imaginable, that "our Universe is a fluctuation of the vacuum."

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, the idea of the whole Universe "appearing literally out of nothing at all" is the idea of the material order of experience as an instance of material order potential.