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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/String_cosmology/TLofomRn">String cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Brane_cosmology/je3aBCDf">Brane cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Loop_quantum_cosmology/yxfgqNe6">Loop quantum cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Top-down_cosmology/PzWy1xe7">Top-down cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Non-standard_cosmology/Tk4WGgvx">Non-standard cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Loop_quantum_gravity/6Xueeoux">Loop quantum gravity</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Canonical_quantum_gravity/Jzz6qQKB">Canonical quantum gravity</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Dark_energy/6bWIYewA">Dark energy</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Minisuperspace/tIdKegRK">Minisuperspace</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Hamilton%E2%80%93Jacobi%E2%80%93Einstein_equation/FLKvl6ll">Hamilton–Jacobi–Einstein equation</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Theory_of_everything/rpossh4t">Theory of everything</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/World_crystal/MG6U24UG">World crystal</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Quantum_vacuum_state/dTvXYPad">Quantum vacuum state</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/False_vacuum/zh7PFB8a">False vacuum</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Why_is_there_anything_at_all%3F/xWhfjXEK">Why is there anything at all?#Something may exist necessarily</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Martin_Bojowald/GJ7fgLtF">Bojowald, Martin</a> (2011). <i>Quantum Cosmology. A Fundamental Description of the Universe</i>. <a href="/facts/Lecture_Notes_in_Physics/s0GX3ayX">Lecture Notes in Physics</a>. Vol. 835. Springer. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-1-4419-8276-6.</li></ul> <h3>Notes</h3> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090917194718/http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/public/qg_qc.html">A Layman's Explanation of Quantum Cosmology</a></li> <li><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.2566">Lectures on Quantum Cosmology by J.J. Halliwell</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Bojowald, Martin (2015). "Quantum cosmology: A review". Reports on Progress in Physics. 78 (2): 023901. arXiv:1501.04899. Bibcode:2015RPPh...78b3901B. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/78/2/023901. PMID 25582917. S2CID 18463042. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Chiou, Dah-Wei (2015). "Loop quantum gravity". International Journal of Modern Physics D. 24 (1): 1530005–1530331. arXiv:1412.4362. Bibcode:2015IJMPD..2430005C. doi:10.1142/S0218271815300050. S2CID 16655619. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Stephen Hawking wrote 1999: So what the singularity theorems are really telling us, is that the universe had a quantum origin, and that we need a theory of quantum cosmology, if we are to predict the present state of the universe."Quantum Cosmology, M-theory and the Anthropic Principle – Stephen Hawking". Archived from the original on 2015-02-14. Retrieved 2015-02-14. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214222724/http://www.hawking.org.uk/quantum-cosmology-m-theory-and-the-anthropic-principle.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150214222724/http://www.hawking.org.uk/quantum-cosmology-m-theory-and-the-anthropic-principle.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Klebanov, Igor & Maldacena, Juan (2009). "Solving Quantum Field Theories via Curved Spacetimes". Physics Today. 62 (1): 28. Bibcode:2009PhT....62a..28K. doi:10.1063/1.3074260. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.3074260" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1063%2F1.3074260</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>He, Dongshan; Gao, Dongfeng; Cai, Qing-yu (2014). "Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing". Physical Review D. 89 (8): 083510. arXiv:1404.1207. Bibcode:2014PhRvD..89h3510H. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.89.083510. S2CID 118371273. <a href="/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ArXiv_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>