Calling Out Donald H: Mainstream Science does believe the universe was created from nothing

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No, I accept that 'nothing' is sort of the theory, but 'nothing' is 'something' at the described point.

An interesting idea is that the universe could be spontaneously created from nothing, but no rigorous proof has been given. In this paper, we present such a proof based on the analytic solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE).

[1404.1207] Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing

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