However, this origin explanation fails for at least two reasons. First, the big bang theory postulates no preexisting space or vacuum. Hence there would have been no place for virtual particles to fluctuate. Second, virtual particles, if real, form as matter and antimatter in equal amounts. However our universe appears to consist almost entirely of ordinary matter.
Antimatter is distinctly rare.
Quantum Interpretations Several unsupported suppositions have been attached to quantum theory, particularly in popular literature. This radical view states that reality and observation are directly related. Until an observation is made of an electron, the particle actually exists in several states or locations at once. One famous, extreme example concerns a box containing a cat which is either dead or alive. The CI view says that the unseen cat is somehow both dead and alive at the same time, until the box is opened.