“We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our universe is simply one of those things that happen from time to time." To which adds Guth: "Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts."”
On the Big Bang
A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
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