TFNR - A brief history of the Universe
Think different!
Here, after all these premises, it is clear that this approach gives us a different image of Physical Reality and the Universe.
We have been led to think of the universe as the result of the Big Bang, to consider the CMB as its fossil remnant, the cosmic expansion as one of the main evidences in favor of this model and of the supposed age of the Universe.
Other alternative models gradually proposed over time have not had similar success.
But, many things don't add up! An example? Almost everything that is supposed to exist appears to be dark and not yet observable except through indirect effects (gravity and the expansion of the cosmos).
Also as a result of the latest observational evidences, it is now clear to most that something is wrong...
We need to completely rethink the way we represent the origin and evolution of the world of which we are part and in which we live.
Can we try to imagine telling a different story of Creation and Evolution of the Universe?
A different story
And what could this different story be?
"Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."
No, no, stop... I was just kidding...
Not an instant in time, not a point in space. Not an initiating causal event. This alternative story begins very differently.
It starts out of time and out of space. Or rather "before" time and space, "before" in a causal sense. It is difficult to find a suitable wording, "before" in causal sense and not strictly in temporal sense, but without a single causal event.
Different, in what sense?
Different in the sense that we take nothing for granted, nothing for sure, because the "truths" that science tells us are not "acquired scientific knowledge", but hypotheses and proposals for answers to "open scientific questions". Fundamental difference between what we know (we know that) and what we would like to know (we wonder if). Although based on a complex of ideas, concepts, models, theories, apparently supported by observational and/or experimental scientific evidence, these "truths" are considered "scientific knowledge acquired" on the basis of a consolidated mechanism which is called "consensus": if we all believe a statement is true, that statement is true, until proven otherwise. Yes, it is true, science must proceed. We also need some certainty to build a vision of the world.The problem is when this "certainty" (which is actually a hypothesis, a proposal) is passed off as a "truth", albeit temporary. It makes me smile to read that an electron "is" like this, the Universe "originated" like that, quanta functioned in this or that way, spacetime curves due to the presence of mass and energy, black holes evaporate, and a thousand other oddities...
Everyone is convinced that their idea is right. And that's good. It means believing in one's work, bringing one's ideas forward with conviction and passion. The problem is, everyone thinks that's the truth. Or at least, they tell it as if it were the truth. It could be, but we're not sure. And science, research is used for this, to build ever better ideas, models, theories. Without ever forgetting that these are hypotheses, not "truths".
I put myself in the shoes of that part of the world population which does not do science and research, but which has the legitimate desire, the interest to understand how the world is made, where we come from and where we are going, what is the origin and the sense of existence and evolution of physical reality, and so on...
Reading a lot of popular science, but also, for the more curious and trained, the "official" scientific literature (articles, papers, preprints, etc.) I think that the general feeling is one of bewilderment, not because of the difficulty of concepts or math, not because of the vertigo that fills us in front of the infinitely small or the immensely large, but because of the fragmentation, the contradiction, the precariousness, the fragility , the presumption... of what is passed for true knowledge, for "truth".
Have I been able to do better with this work of mine? No. But, in this work, I have stated and reaffirmed countless times that these are hypotheses, proposals, ideas formulated in a constructive sense to stimulate reflection and research towards new directions that can help us build a broader and deeper vision of Reality.
I am not criticizing anything or anyone. I'm trying to forcefully grasp the idea that what everyone (or many) believes to be true, isn't necessarily true.
That said, what are the most important and peculiar aspects of this story? What is the deeper essence of what we are trying to outline?
Let's start from the fundamental dimensions of Reality:
- Cause: no first Cause, no external force. The Primary Source is internal to the process itself. Its existence, its manifestation is the Process of Formation of Reality. Its essence is the Form of the evolving Universe
- Space: no limits in Space, no borders, no special points (no center). Space was born within the same process (and is incessantly re-created and evolves)
And, what about Creation (origin) "and" Evolution (development), in a word, Formation:
- Existence: the product of the sub-process of Creation (Events -> Action)
- Essence / Form: the product of the sub-process of Evolution (Relations -> Information, the Form of Action)
Creation (of the most elementary form) of Existence
Things don't exist in the conventional classical sense. Things, everything, happens. The true fundamental "substance" that composes things, atoms, molecules, objects, stars, galaxies, dark matter, dark energy, everything, are not particles and waves, the real "substance" are Events, Elementary Events, fluctuations at the Planck scale of / in the Elementary Field produced by the Action of the Fundamental Force (Force and Field are the two aspects of the Source of Reality).
Elementary Events organized in Processes, huge and complex networks of Elementary Events, that evolve incessantly toward more and more Complex Events, forming increasingly complex Processes, which together make up the entire Process of Formation of Reality.
Or rather, what really matters are the "distributions of Elementary Events" that support Information, those patterns that organize Relations between Events in Processes, which we can mathematically describe through stochastic / deterministic processes, which correspond to the creative and evolving chaos / order processes that form Reality.
Everything, absolutely everything, in its most elementary foundation depends on the distributions of the Elementary Events produced by the interaction of the fundamental / elementary Entities, by Relations, or correlations, which organize Events into Processes. Everything is relative, as it arises from the Relations between Events. The most fundamental physical aspects / quantities: Space, Time, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin and so on up to the more complex Forms of Existence.
From the correlation between the distributions of Elementary Events emerges the profoundly uncertain, quantum, probabilistic nature of Reality at the most elementary levels, which in the evolution towards a greater complexity, towards greater spatial and temporal extensions, compensate / mediate, giving rise to an emergent determinism that brings us to the classical view that characterized the early development of physics.
Let'start from... "Nothing"
Let'start from... "Nothing". Or better, from the transition from Nothingness to Emptiness, from "nothing" to the "absolute vacuum" (the most elementary form of Existence).
We cannot say that Nothingness exists. Nothingness, by definition, has no property: neither existence nor form. It is the non-existent boundary in the phase transition that we call the "creation of existence", in its most basic form. Absolute emptiness, in fact.
Emptiness: the absolute vacuum
Absolute emptiness, absolute vacuum...
Before space and time...
Emergence of the dark side of the Universe
It is, again, from the organization of Elementary Events, Relations and Processes that the first Structures of Information arise. The first Vortices, the first convective structures in space-time (a space-time in very slow heating, now at the mean temperature of about 2.7 Kelvin degrees), characterized by a minimal but increasing inhomogeneity, an emerging organization of the Elementary Field, which in a very slow evolution leads to the formation of the first Dark structures. These, growing and interacting in successive pro]]cesses of aggregation, merger and annihilation, filled all the available space, creating what we now understand to be the dark structure of the cosmic web.
The first (dark) structures
Dark From the incessant and changing interaction of dark structures, which we observe as giant voids, dark halos of various sizes, walls and strings between them, ordinary matter arose and continues to arise, from the interaction of the boundaries of those bubbles, halos, from boundaries formed by what we assume is Dark energy generating a swirling dynamic in space-time. A foam of correlations between the distributions of Elementary Events, which generates micro Vortices and Waves, which immediately evolve into Particles, accelerated by immense and intense magnetic fields.
Light from the dark
"Let there be light, and there was light"...
A rarefied but incessant process, at times or locally more intense, extended episodes of formation of ordinary matter, which alternate with periods of scarce production, in an expansion and contraction of the great dark structures, which in an incessant, very slow breath, produce foam, like the sea through its waves. From the consequent collisions between the elementary particles thus produced and accelerated, more complex particles are formed and begin to collapse into the less extensive but more dense, massive dark halos.
Gas, gas everywhere... light elements
Protons and electrons... Hydrogen... Atoms... Little molecules... Maybe some Helium atom... Gas...
Under the dynamics of the dark cosmic web, something starts to addensate, and then to collapse into the small size halos... gas clouds become proto-stars... like a funtain toward the inner regions of the halos... etc... then
The cosmos takes shape
Just as from this dark cosmic dynamic, which involves immense and invisible structures, the ever more complex dynamics of visible matter arose and continues to arise, the dance that involves every structure, every form in this unlimited, infinite and eternal Universe that hosts us and of which, like the whole planet we inhabit, we represent a highly complex and constantly evolving part.
The first gas clouds, then the first stars, the clusters of stars, the first galaxies. And so on, ordinary matter, which, like a flowering, gradually colonizes the immense expanses of Dark structures. And the dark dance is enriched with light, radiant energy, infinite local dynamics, which together create the immense complexity of the Universe in evolution.
