%0 Journal Article %T Implications of a Quantum Mechanical Treatment of the Universe %A Murat £¿zer %J Physics %D 1998 %I arXiv %R 10.1142/S0217732398000401 %X We attempt to treat the very early Universe according to quantum mechanics. Identifying the scale factor of the Universe with the width of the wave packet associated with it, we show that there cannot be an initial singularity and that the Universe expands. Invoking the correspondence principle, we obtain the scale factor of the Universe and demonstrate that the causality problem of the standard model is solved. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801046v1