http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060619/full/060619-6.html So those crazy diamonds that are physicists have apparently come up with a good hypothesis regarding what exactly happened at the dawn of the universe. Was the big bang caused by thetans? Was it as the result of a previous big crunch? Was the universe made entirely of chocolate?
The answer has a good chance of being Yes. As a natural conclusion of relativity and quantum mechanics, contend Hawking and Hertog, the big band was a Schroedinger's Universe.
Of course its a lot more detailed than that, so if you have enough knowledge to know what the hell 'construction of metastable de Sitter vacua' means, here's the paper:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0602/0602091.pdf