Valery A. Rubakov: Towards creating a universe in the laboratory

More information at Abstract There is an old theoretical theory question of whether a universe like ours can in principle be created artificially. It actually can be posed as follows: “Are there theories in which a man-made universe is possible?“ Until fairly recently it was believed that such a possibility is ruled out by Penrose’ singularity theorem. However, the main assumption of this theorem, the Null Energy Condition, may be violated in