It is shown that the properly formulated notion of the quantum birth of the universe can be observationally confirmed or rejected. The idea is that the energy density and spectrum of the relic gravitational wave background is determined by a wavefunction of the universe not only in classically allowed but also in classically forbidden regimes.
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L. P. Grishchuk (1987) studied this question.
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