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Quantum Fluctuation… M.S. Mousavi Karimi (179

                  asking  what  is  north  of            must  have  a  singularity,
                  the north pole.                        some  physical  models

                  Similarly,     it   is   not           have  been  proposed  to
                  sensible to ask where the              avoid  the  singularity.  Of
                  Big Bang took place. The               course,  there  is  no

                  point-universe  was  not               singularity       in      the
                  an  object  isolated  in               deceased steady-state model
                  space;  it  was  the  entire           as well.

                  universe, and so the only           The first is the model of the
                  answer  can  be  that  the          inflationary universe which
                  big     bang       happened         was popular in the 1980s.

                  everywhere.  (Gott  et  al             According         to      the
                  1976: 65)                           modified  version  of  this
                                                      model,  called  the  “chaotic
                  Therefore,         it      is       inflationary model”, (Linde

               nonsensical to question the            1984)  the  universe  is
               place  and  time  of  the  Big         presupposed to have begun
               Bang.  In  Davies’s  (1978:            from an unexpected chaotic

               78-79) words, the big bang             state.  The  matter  and  the
               represents      the    creation        temperature      are    evenly
               event; the creation not only           distributed  but  numerous

               of all the matter and energy           bubbles,  originated  by  the
               in  the  universe  but  also  of       quantum           fluctuations,
               spacetime itself.
                                                      existed  in  space-time.  The

                  5.  Since  1965,  in  which         field     energy      in     the
                  Hawking  and  Penrose               respective regions possessed

                  showed that the universe            a  repulsive  effect  and  thus
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