Davies & Gribbin (1992: 169):
The Universe has only been borrowed from the vacuum, after all; all that inflation has done is to delay the inevitable. In quantum physics, something can come out of nothing for a while, but eventually the debt has to be repaid.
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From the perspective of Quantum Theory, viewed through Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the Universe is the instantiation of potential rather than "borrowed from the vacuum", whereas a vacuum is a region of space with no instances of real particles. On this view, the authors here confuse the potential for matter with the absence of actual matter.
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