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Name: Parmar A.
Status: student
Age: 18
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Date: 8/30/2003
Question:
Why do the laws of quantum governing sub-atomic particles help in explaining the structure of the baby universe?

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It is amazing that the laws of quantum mechanics that rules the sub-atomic world should end up being the key to the origin of the Universe. The "reason" is that in the early Universe the energy and density of the primordial stuff was so great that both quantum mechanics and relativity are needed to develop any reasonable explanation for the observed phenomena. Newton's classical picture simply does not explain what is observed.

Vince Calder


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