The paper defines nothing as "there is neither matter nor space or time", which sounds pretty empty to me.
It does assume that there's a quantum state that has some probability to create a vacuum bubble. They further show(*) that there's a probability for that bubble to grow exponentially.
(*) Well, that's at least what they state. My physics-fu is too weak to follow the math they show as proof.:(
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The paper defines nothing as "there is neither matter nor space or time", which sounds pretty empty to me.
:(
It does assume that there's a quantum state that has some probability to create a vacuum bubble. They further show(*) that there's a probability for that bubble to grow exponentially.
(*) Well, that's at least what they state. My physics-fu is too weak to follow the math they show as proof.