What if the early universe was prevented from changing its fundamental energy states by quantum mechanics itself?

New research explores how rapid cosmic expansion and environmental interference may have created a phenomenon called “cosmic lockdown,” suppressing quantum tunneling and trapping fields in their existing states.

The idea could connect quantum information science with one of cosmology’s deepest questions: why does the universe remain in the state we observe today?

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