harmonic universe



Yet another attempt to reduce the physics of our universe to the harmonic oscillator; An interesting paper and a pleasure to read. But there is a problem with this approach near the end imho. I do not feel that the proposed boundary conditions psi(0) = 0 and psi(infty) = 0 are natural and honestly I have no intuition what would be natural in this context.

I think that this is a general problem whenever one tries to calculate the 'wavefunction of the universe'. While we have a good intuition for boundary conditions in conventional quantum theory, this intuition is lost for quantum cosmology. But of course those boundary conditions determine everything...