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S. W. Hawking's proposal for the wave function of the universe, if correct, determines the conditional probabilities for all properties of the universe. In a simple minisuperspace model it predicts that at any given nonzero energy density, the universe is most probably infinitely large.
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Page, D.N. Why is the universe so large?. Int J Theor Phys 25, 545–552 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668788
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00668788