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Quantum Fluctuation… M.S. Mousavi Karimi (187
conventional laws of even if the system does not
physics. (Tryon, 1973: 396) have enough energy to
classically attain the
Tryon’s model, however, configurations between the
could not explain why, two. This is possible
given that the scale of because the uncertainty
vacuum fluctuation is principle allows the electron
typically subatomic, the to spontaneously acquire
universe has become so the additional energy for
large. the short period of time
Vilenkin (1982,1983&1988) required for it to tunnel
proposed an improved through the barrier.
extension of Tryon’s In this case, there is not
model. He took the notion state of the system before
of quantum tunneling from the tunneling, for the state
quantum mechanics and of tunneling is the first
applied it to space-time state that exists and there is
itself. no time before this state.
Quantum tunnelling is a Then, by a combination of
process by which a this idea with the idea of
quantum system can the plasticity of space from
suddenly and discontinuously general relativity, Ibid: 2848)
make a transition from an claimed that his version of
initial configuration to a the inflationary scenario
final one- as long as no can explain the spontaneous
conservation law makes the creation of the world from
transformation impossible-
nothing.
