Th Universe is a Vacuum Fluctuation

Towards the end of John Gribbin’s In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, he refers to a theory proposed by Edward Tryon that proposes that the universe is a vacuum fluctuation, a statistically expected deviation from equilibrium. “If the universe has cero net energy then the amount of time it is allowed to exist, in line with [the uncertainty equation], Delta E x delta t = hbar, can be very long indeed.”

It’s interesting to consider that our universe might just be a fluctuation in the vacuum. Though it is statistically improbable, given infinite time it is expected, and any observer would require such a universe in order to exist (the anthropic principle). Weirdness.