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    Conformal quantization and space-time singularity
    (World Scientific Publishing group, 1986-06-06) Joshi, P. S.; Narlikar, J. V.
    This work generalizes earlier results of conformal quantization that within the full range of space-times conformal to any singular space-time satisfying Einstein's field equations for minimally coupled matter, the singular solutions form a set of zero-probability measure. A wider definition of space-time singularity that includes the curvature singularity assumed in the earlier work (op. cit.) is adapted and it is shown that the previous conclusion stands even when the present state of the universe is defined by wave functionals that are not necessarily wave packets. Within the present framework of quantum gravity therefore it seems extremely unlikely that the universe had a singular origin.