Quantum interactions may have locked early universe's fields into existing energy states

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The universe may be trapped in its own comfort zone, and a researcher in the College of Engineering and Computer Science has helped explain why it cannot seem to leave.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:20:09 UTC.

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