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What If the Universe Had No Beginning? Part 1: A Wave Function for the Universe


The equations of general relativity give up at the singularity. Decades before Stephen Hawking dared to guess what came before, John Wheeler and Bryce DeWitt built the strange mathematical machinery that would make the question askable in the first place.

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