Predictions from Quantum Cosmology

The world view suggested by quantum cosmology is that inflating universes with all possible values of the fundamental constants are spontaneously created out of nothing. I explore the consequences of the assumption that we are a "typical" civilization living in this metauniverse. For a class of models that do not exhibit "eternal" inflation, the most probable values of the constants correspond to very flat inflaton potentials, thermalization, and baryogenesis at electroweak scale, structure formation by topological defects, and an appreciable cosmological constant.