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International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 10 (33): 169-217, Serial Number 1, Winter. 2023

ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPER
Quantum Fluctuation and Critical Analysis of the Physical
Approach to the Creatio ex Nihilo of the Universe

Dr. MirSaeid Mousavi Karimi *

* Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy, Mofid University, Qom, Iran

ARTICL INFO ABSTRACT
Article History: SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The Big Bang theory and the standard

Received: 28 November 2022 cosmological models based on it imply the world’s temporal finitude.

Revised: 02 February 2023 The temporally finite universe, most physicists believe, must have
Accepted: 11 February 2023 been created out of nothing. In order to avoid the theological and
metaphysical implications of such an idea, the most important
Key Words: scenarios that have been proposed are: (1) The universe is not
Big-Bang
temporally finite, but rather is pre-eternal; (2) The creation of the
universe out of nothing can be explained purely physically; (3) There
Creatio-ex-Nihilo
is no correlation between the temporal finitude of the universe and
Quantum Fluctuation having a temporal beginning, so the universe always existed; (4) The
creation of the universe as a brute fact is a spontaneous uncaused
Tryon-Vilenkin Model origination ex nihilo.

METHOD AND FINDING: In this essay, I aim to discuss and criticize
Hawking-Hartle model scenario (2). To reach this aim, two important physical models, i.e:
The Tryon-Vilenkin and Hawking-Hartle models, which have been
DOI: formulated based on quantum fluctuation, will be explained. It will
10.22034/imjpl.2023.15198.1078 be shown that they are indeed explaining the creation of the universe,
not out of nothing, but from something.
DOR: CONCLUSION: No physical theory can ever explain the creation of
20.1001.1.26767619.2023.10.33.5.1 the universe out of nothing by appealing to the physical

phenomena or the laws of nature. The outcome of the paper is that
creatio ex nihilo of the universe out of nothing can only be

explained metaphysically by appealing to some external causes.

* Corresponding Author: Article Address Published on the Journal Site:
Email: http://p-l.journals.miu.ac.ir/article_7572.html
msmkarimi@mofidu.ac.ir
ORCID: 0000-0001-7842-8427

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