i still think that we have a lot more icu points world wide trained on the problem of understanding the foundations of quanta mechanics. And i don't think it's an intractable problem either, so i think t there will be a consensus about it sooner rather than later. So choose your priority questions wisely, because you are on your honor to only ask one ever in your life. David harrington asks a prior ity question. Where does the energy come from? In smolen's hypothesis, a black hole of only a few solar masses would create a full fledged universe. The short answer is that the energy of the universe is zero, at least in this model.