Cosmogenesis and the tipping pencil analogy

Synopsis

If the cosmological scale factor follows the Friedmann equation of general relativity then it can be shown that the dynamics of the universe is similar to that of a tipping pencil. Moreover, a cosmogenesis scenario can be developed if the uncertainty principle is incorporated into that dynamics.

In summary, we will briefly discuss a physicist's qualitative answer to Heidegger’s question “Why is there something rather than nothing?”

References:
Ronald J Adler, Cosmogenesis and the tipping pencil analogy, American Journal of Physics 80 (2012), no. 5, 417–419.
Arnab Rai Choudhuri, Astrophysics-archive for physicists, Cambridge university press, 2010