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The question of the origin of the matter in the universe is no longer thought to be beyond the range of science — everything can be created from nothing…it is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

— Alan Guth The Inflationary Universe : The Quest for a New Theory of Cosmic Origins (1998)

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The Big Bang theory says nothing about what banged, why it banged, or what happened before it banged.

It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory—or a universe in your backyard—by man-made processes.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Inflation is a prequel to the conventional Big Bang theory. ...It does provide a theory of the propulsion that drove the universe into this humungous episode of expansion which we call the Big Bang.

The Early Universe (2012)

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