Padmanabhan, T.2012-03-032012-03-031983-01-03http://hdl.handle.net/11007/242It is shown that conformal fluctuations in the metric can be initiated by the vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field with mass greater than the Planck mass. Flatspace is unstable against such fluctuations.enInstability of flat spaceVacuum fluctuationsOrigin of conformal fluctuationsPlanck massInstability of flat space and origin of conformal fluctuationsArticle