TFNR - A brief history of the Universe

Think different!

Here, after all these premises, it is clear that this approach provides a different (alternative) image of Physical Reality and the Universe.

We have been led to envision the Universe as the result of the Big Bang, with the CMB considered its fossil remnant and cosmic expansion cited as key evidence supporting that model and the presumed age of the Universe.

Over time, other alternative models have been proposed, yet none achieved comparable acceptance.

But many things don't add up. One example? Most of what is presumed to exist appears to be dark, unobservable directly—perceived only through indirect phenomena such as gravity and the Universe's expansion.

And so, following recent observational data, it is now clear to many that something doesn't quite align...

We must radically reconsider how we represent the origin and the evolution of the world—the very world we inhabit and of which we are a part.

Can we dare to imagine telling a different story of Creation and Evolution of the Universe?

A different story

And what might this different story be?

"Long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..."

No, no, stop... just joking...

Not an instant in time, not a point in space. Not an initiating causal event. This alternative narrative begins in a far less conventional way.

It begins outside Causality, beyond Space and beyond Time—since Causality and Variationality (i.e. Space and Time) are emergent properties, manifestations of the Source of Reality. "Outside" or perhaps more aptly "before" Space and Time—not in a strictly temporal sense, but in a causal one. It's difficult to pin down the right terminology. "Before" in causal sense and not strictly in temporal sense, yet without a single initiating cause. Perhaps "outside" is the term that best captures this condition.

Different, in what sense?

Different in the sense that we assume nothing as certain, nothing as taken for granted. The "truths" proclaimed by conventional / mainstream science are not fixed knowledge, but rather hypotheses and proposals in response to unresolved scientific questions. There's a key distinction between what we know (we know that) and what we hope to know (we wonder if).

Despite being built upon a network of theories, concepts, models—seemingly reinforced by observational or experimental data—these "truths" become accepted as "acquired scientific knowledge" via a process called "consensus": if most agree a statement is true, it is treated as true, until proven otherwise. Of course, science must move forward. A measure of certainty is needed to construct a coherent worldview.

The issue arises when this "certainty"—which is truly only a hypothesis—is presented as "truth", even if provisional. It makes me smile when I read that an electron "is" like this, the Universe "began" like that, quanta behave this way or that, spacetime curves due to mass and energy, black holes evaporate—and many other oddities.

Everyone believes their idea is correct. And that's fine. It reflects belief in one's work, advancing ideas with passion and conviction. The problem is: many speak as if theirs is the definitive truth. It might be, but we're not certain. And that's why we pursue science and research—to build better ideas, improved models, refined theories. Always remembering that these are hypotheses, not certainties.

I place myself in the shoes of those who are not scientists or researchers, but who sincerely wish to understand how the world is structured and functions, where we come from, what our place is, and what the origin and purpose of the existence and evolution of Physical Reality might be.

From extensive reading—popular science and more advanced scientific literature (articles, papers, preprints, etc.)—I sense a prevailing feeling of bewilderment. Not due to conceptual or mathematical difficulty. Not because of the dizzying scales—from the infinitesimal to the cosmic. But because of the fragmentation, contradictions, tentativeness, fragility, and overconfidence in what's presented as scientific knowledge—as "truth".

The problem isn't fragmentation, contradictions, tentativeness, or fragility, which are common characteristics of every search for new knowledge. The problem is the proclamation of scientific truth over what isn't, over what is merely a hypothesis, even when supported by supposed evidence and tons of math.

Have I achieved something better in this work? No. But here, I have clearly stated and repeatedly emphasized that these are hypotheses, proposals, ideas crafted to provoke thought and encourage research—guiding us toward new paths that may help us build a wider and deeper understanding of Reality.

I am not criticizing anyone. I am emphasizing the idea that what many accept as true is not necessarily true.

With that said, what are the most significant and distinctive aspects of this story? What is its deeper essence?

Let's examine the fundamental dimensions of Reality:

• Cause: No boundaries in Causality—neither in input (no first cause, no prime mover) nor in output (no upper limit on Complexity achievable by the Universe). No initial Cause (in the Big Bang sense), no causal singularity, no external force (no creation by a supernatural agent). The Primary Source is simultaneously external (its active, causal aspect—Force—is transcendent) and internal (its passive, variational aspect—Field—is immanent) to the process itself. Its Existence, its unfolding, is the Process of Formation of Reality. Its Essence is the Form of the evolving Universe.
• Space: No constraints in Space, no edges, no privileged points (no center, no singularity). Space arises within the Process itself—and is continuously regenerated and evolved.
• Time: No boundaries in Time, no beginning, no end, no singularity. Time emerges within the same formative Process.

And finally, regarding Creation (origin) "and" Evolution (development)—in a single concept: Formation:

• Existence: The outcome of the sub-process of Creation (Events -> Action)
• Essence / Form: The product of the sub-process of Evolution (Relations -> Information, the Form of Action)

Formation of Reality

The history of the Universe—Universe as the temporal section of Reality that we call "present"—is a history of Formation. It is the continuous Creation of Elementary Action, its organization into Information / Energy (with Energy understood as an elementary form of Physical Information), and the evolutionary construction of Structures of Information. These structures include those of Dark Matter / Dark Energy (Dark Halos, Gravitational Waves, and the dark interactions) and those of Ordinary Matter (Particles, Waves, and Interactions), culminating in the evolving Forms we observe: the Cosmic Web, with galaxies, clusters, giant voids, and so on.

Reality emerges from an uninterrupted Process of Formation, which comprises both Creation—the genesis of Existence through a spontaneous transition enacted by the Source (the Force-Field pair) from Nothing to Action, from Nothing to the vacuum, from Nothingness to Emptiness, unorganized Elementary Events—and Evolution—the shaping of Essence / Form of Reality, the unfolding from Action to Information / Energy, from which the Universe's Structures and Forms arise.

"Entities that create Events organized by Relations in evolving Processes".

Accordingly, the entirety of Reality—the evolving Universe—is a super-Process encompassing infinite nested Processes, and simultaneously a super-System of infinite interacting Systems, entangled in continuous interplay across multiple existential layers.

The Process of Formation of Reality constitutes the super-Process underlying all Processes—the persistent architecture of Existence—that incessantly build Reality. From the largest scales, encompassing cosmological levels, to the closest and most familiar—starting a car, synthesizing a protein inside one of the billions of human cells—and down to the infinitesimal: the interactions of Particles and Waves, the internal dynamics of composite Particles, and the mechanisms that make their Existence possible and define their properties and behaviors, the domain of QM and QFT.

And the Universe—this wondrous, dynamic expanse saturated with Action and Energy, filled with Structures and changing Forms, infinite in spatial and temporal scope, perpetually evolving and without limit or end—is the super-System shaped by the Process of Formation, the unceasing forge of Reality.

Creation (of the most elementary form) of Existence

Things don't exist in the conventional classical sense—things happen, everything happens. The true fundamental "substance" that makes up things—atoms, molecules, objects, stars, galaxies, Dark Matter, Dark Energy, everything—is not Particles and Waves. The real "substance" is Events—Elementary Events, spatial fluctuations around the Planck scale of the Elementary Field, produced by the Action of the Fundamental Force (Force and Field being the two aspects of the Source of Reality).

Elementary Events organized by Relations in Processes—vast and intricate networks of Elementary Events and Relations—incessantly evolving toward increasingly complex Complex Events, forming higher-order Processes which collectively compose the entire Process of Formation of Reality.

Or rather, what truly matters are the "temporal distributions of Elementary Events" that underpin Information: the correlations within these distributions—patterns that organize Relations among Events in Processes—which we can describe mathematically through mixed (stochastic-and-deterministic) processes corresponding to the creative and evolving chaos/order dynamics that form Reality. Correlations among inhomogeneities in the temporal distributions of the elementary spatial fluctuations around the Planck scale, the Elementary Events, are the key element that sustains everything that exists: Metric (Space and Time, Space-time), Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin, and more.

Everything—absolutely everything—at its most elementary level depends on the temporal distributions of Elementary Events, produced by interactions among fundamental/elementary Entities, and on Relations or "correlations" that organize Events into coherent Processes. Everything is relative, as it emerges from Relations among Events.

Thus, the most fundamental physical aspects/quantities—Space, Time, Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin—and so on, up to the more complex Forms of Existence are relative too. Nothing is absolute, except for the Source—the fundamental entity, the Primary Source of Existence and Essence/Form of Reality.

This Source, with its two aspects—Force and Field—is not directly knowable, observable, or measurable. We can only know, observe, and measure the effects it produces (Phenomena) and the manner in which those effects arise (Dynamics). We cannot see forces or fields—but we can observe Events and the Relations that organize them into increasingly complex Events, into webs of Events and Relations, into emergent Processes.

Evolution (of the more complex forms) of Existence

Evolution is differentiation, departure from homogeneity, organization, transformation, and selection of inhomogeneities, anisotropies—spanning from the most elementary to the most complex. It may seem odd to view a star, an apple, or even our own body as an inhomogeneity—an evolving anisotropy. Yet this is precisely the case: our body, a cell, a molecule, an atom, or each of the countless particles that make up our body in any given instant, is the result of dynamically organized inhomogeneities. At every level of complexity, these inhomogeneities continuously create newer, larger, and more elaborate structures.

From the correlation among distributions of Elementary Events arises the profoundly uncertain, quantum, probabilistic nature of Reality at its most foundational levels. As complexity increases—extending across broader spatial and temporal dimensions—this uncertainty compensates and mediates, giving rise to emergent certainty. This leads us toward the classical-deterministic framework that marked the early development of physics.

Reality is not uncertain or certain or finalistic. Reality is uncertain and certain and finalistic. Causality, too, evolves—like any other facet of Reality, like Reality in its entirety. These three steps in the evolution of Causality coexist, overlapping across various dimensional and Complexity layers of Reality. Through their interactions, they produce the staggering diversity of existing forms and their richly varied dynamics.

Likewise, our models for describing Reality cannot be purely probabilistic-quantum, or purely classical-deterministic, or strictly finalistic. They must reconcile these aspects within a deeper and more expansive framework.

Science must not seek simplicity of parts at the cost of the Complexity of the whole. Instead, it must strive to embrace the Complexity of totality, while identifying the underlying principles that allow Creation of Existence and Evolution of the Essence / Form to unfold.

A brief history of the Universe - Glyph -Draft

Let'start from... "Nothing"

Let'start from... "Nothing". Or rather, from the transition from Nothingness to Emptiness—from "Non-Existence, non-being" to the "absolute vacuum", the most elementary manifestation of Existence.

We cannot claim that Nothingness exists—that would be contradictory. Nothingness, by definition, possesses no property: neither Existence nor Essence / Form. It is the non-existent threshold in the phase transition referred to as the "Creation of Existence" in its most basic state—pure emptiness.

"Spontaneous" Creation from Nothing does not imply absence of Causality. This transition is incessantly "caused"—enacted, operated by the internal interaction between the two aspects of the Primary Source of Reality: the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field pair. The transcendent attribute of the Source—its causal "agent" represented by the Force—and its immanent attribute—the variational (spatial and temporal) "acted" represented by the Field—together constitute Agency, the fundamental property of the Source and its outward manifestation, Action (the occurrence, or the production of Events).

At first glance, this may seem a philosophical riddle—a metaphysical indulgence. Yet it constitutes a central problem in physics, pivotal for understanding the causally inaugural phase we designate as Creation: the incessant production of Elementary Events by the Action of Fundamental Force upon Elementary Field. It may resemble a mystical outlook that appeals to a supernatural agent external to Physical Reality, positing it as the reason for the Existence of something rather than nothing. However, here the Source is conceived as a simultaneously transcendent and immanent entity—via its two synergistic components, Force and Field, the causal and variational components—origin of Physical Existence and Essence / Form of Reality. Creation (not as a singular moment but as ongoing action) is thus characterized as a perturbative influence of a force upon a (quantum?) state of a field.

Force and Field—cornerstones of physics—underlie all natural phenomena. Admittedly, this roots the cause of Reality's Existence in an entity we call the Primary Source. Why the Source exists remains an unfathomable mystery—one, I suspect, forever beyond resolution. Yet, assuming the Existence of the Source, we must endeavor to construct a comprehensive knowledge system that encompasses everything observed in the Universe—both Physical and Cognitive—not merely to forecast outcomes of experiments (a result that is certainly not to be despised, but for me it is not sufficient), but to describe and plausibly explain what exists (Ontology), what occurs and how it occurs (Phenomenology), and how what exists produces what occurs in the way it occurs (Dynamics).

In summary, the reason something exists rather than nothing is that the Source, by its very existence, ceaselessly enacts a phase transition from Non-Existence to Existence—from Nothingness to absolute void—through the inner interaction of its two aspects: Force and Field. This transition manifests itself as the incessant emergence of spatial fluctuations in the Elementary Field caused by the Fundamental Force—primary (in a causal sense) and fundamental expression of the Source of Reality. Each point-event of the Elementary Field may be regarded as a quantum (harmonic?) oscillator, whose fluctuations embody the Elementary Events.

Emptiness: the absolute vacuum

There are so many words to refer to Emptiness, to define a condition of Existence without forms—absence of objects, things, occurrences. And where words abound, confusion often follows...

Confusion between "Nothing" and "Emptiness", void and vacuum arises from a deeper uncertainty surrounding the constitution of Energy and Matter, the role of quantum fields, and the classical/relativistic structure of Space-time—its curvature and dynamics—as well as the hypothetical, unobserved entities like Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

To define these concepts clearly and appropriately, we must turn to the hypotheses proposed in this research project, regarding the nature of primary Entities, Events, and Relations—the Processes underlying the most elementary forms of Existence contributing to the formation of Physical Reality.

We are all unsettled by the term "absolute", as the entire trajectory of modern science has revolved around extending the concept of relativity to broader and broader domains of the physical (and not only physical) world—even to Space-time itself.

But I invite you to suspend judgment and follow me on a journey into the infinitesimal—a causal dimension beyond what we already call elementary, beyond Particles, preceding Space and Time, reaching toward the infinitesimal realm of the Planck scale, and beyond. Please also refrain from invoking quantum gravity hypotheses, which have led us to view a dimensional limit both in Space and in Time, a discrete organization of these basic entities.

It is at this extreme scale, in the descent toward minus infinity, that we find significant resonances—determined by the intrinsic properties of the Primary Source, the causal pressure exerted by the Fundamental Force, and the Field's resistance against such variations—which quantum physics identifies as quantum vacuum, quantum fluctuations, vacuum energy, etc.

In this System of Knowledge, I hypothesize that these resonances—infinitesimal spatial fluctuations of the Elementary Field around the Planck scale, variations in spatial intervals described by the Uncertainty Principle—constitute the Elementary Events from which everything originates.

The dynamics of each point-event in the Elementary Field constitutes an elementary physical Process, formally describable as a stochastic process.

In this hypothesis, absolute vacuum refers to a condition of the Elementary Field in which all Elementary Events are stochastically independent—no spatial correlations exist among the temporal distributions of the spatial fluctuations in each point event of the continuous Elementary Field in the dimensional scale around the Planck scale. We encounter a state of perfect homogeneity in those spatial fluctuations and in their temporal distributions. In this sense, absolute vacuum can be understood as "perfect chaos".

In this context, Space and Time are emergent aspects arising from the progressive and dynamic, ever-changing, organization of the dynamics of the Field's event points. They can also be seen as peculiar viewpoints on the dynamics of the Elementary Field, from the perspective of the component of Elementary Action that I call here Perturbation, the root of Metrics and Mass.

The structure of Space—distances, areas, and volumes—is determined by the average intensity of elementary spatial fluctuations (the result of the balance between the pressure exerted by the Force upon the Field—the Action—and the resistance offered by the Field—the re-Action). Space is dynamically curved at the level of individual point-events around Planck scale, but appears flat when aggregating over multiple point-events (emergent flatness), already a few orders of magnitude above the Planck scale. These small scale indeterminate fluctuations result in the absolute flatness we observe at macroscopic scales—indeed, the entire cosmos. In such a condition, Space—or what I consider its precursor—can be regarded as absolute (given the total absence of inhomogeneities in the Elementary Field). This implies the absolute flatness of Space as a whole.

The structure of Time—temporal intervals, the "rhythm or rate of flow of Time"—is locally determined by the density of Elementary Events (by the temporal distributions of the—around Planck scale—Spatial fluctuations of the Field under the Action of the Force). In periodic processes, one might speak of fluctuation frequency. But here, we dwell within a domain dominated by indeterminacy, where a sort of periodicity—or rather, "a resonance of periodicity"—may be seen as an emergent property only at scales larger than the Planck scale. Unlike what was previously stated for Space, under these conditions, "Time—or its precursor—can be considered absolute" and "absolutely flat" only in the case of a completely unstructured Field, i.e., in the case of absolute vacuum as defined here, statistical homogeneity in the elementary dynamics of the Field. The massive InfoStructures, which constitute Dark and Ordinary Matter, being characterized by non-zero Perturbation values, represent inhomogeneities (local and more or less extensive) in the spatial geometry of the temporal flow rate. Therefore, in other words and to summarize, we can say that, unlike Space, which is naturally curved only at scales around the Planck scale, while at higher scales it is absolutely flat, Time can be absolute and absolutely flat only at scales higher than the Planck scale and only in the absence of massive Structures which are precisely constituted by inhomogeneities in the temporal flow rate. At scales larger than that of Planck, in a Universe as structured as the one we observe, where absolute vacuum is completely absent, or scarcely present and confined to the smallest scales, and where Dark Matter and Dark Energy are omnipresent to varying degrees, the curvature of Space-time, and therefore the overall inhomogeneity of the Metric, is entirely constituted by the curvature of Time, and therefore by the inhomogeneity of the rate of flow of time.

Absolute Space and Time—real but inaccessible—remain unobservable, immeasurable, due to the absence, within a completely homogeneous Field, of Space-time reference points, as well as observers, and instruments of observation. The existence of absolute reference points would imply a breakdown of the homogeneity, of the stochastic independence among Elementary Events, the emergence of correlations among their distributions, and an organized structure of such correlations into complex processes we call "observables", "observers",measuring instruments, etc.

Thus, when referring to absolute emptiness, absolute vacuum (and therefore to absolute Space and Time), we mean absolute homogeneity and statistical independence, the complete absence of correlations within the spatial fluctuations of the Elementary Field and their temporal distributions, across the dynamics of its infinite event-points, the Elementary Events representing the most elementary form of Existence, whose existence distinguishes Nothingness from absolute vacuum.

This absoluteness can be expressed in several equivalent ways, depending on the observational perspective—or rather, imagined observational vantage—on the Elementary Field, its structure and dynamics:

• observing Space: absolute space, absolute space flatness (the cumulative dynamics of Space at Planck scale average out into absolute flatness at macroscopic scale)
• observing Time: absolute time, absolute time flatness (associated with the homogeneity of the temporal distributions of Elementary Events, of the spatial fluctuations around Planck scale)
• observing Space-time and metric phenomena: absolute Space-time, absolute Space-time flatness, no curvature even at scales a few orders of magnitude above the Planck scale, no inhomogeneity in the Perturbation Component of Elementary Action
• observing Mass and gravitational phenomena: no presence of Mass (neither positive nor negative) in the Field—thus, no gravitational attraction (Dark or Ordinary Matter: negative Mass) or repulsion (Dark Energy: positive Mass), no inhomogeneity in the Perturbation Component of Elementary Action
• observing Motion and kinetic phenomena: the velocity of propagation of causality, Action and Information in the Field remains uniform across positions and observers (if any existed)
• observing Temperature: via a thermodynamic analogy—a (obviously improper) parallelism between elementary spatial fluctuations in the Field and molecular motion in solids/liquids/gases/plasmas. In the case of the Elementary Field each point-event of the Field, owing to its unique dynamics, shows a specific temperature. Averaging over a more or less extensive volume, we obtain the average temperature of that region of the Field. Naturally, this analogy is inappropriate, as the temperature of Matter is a statistical data that summarizes the dynamics, the motion, of its components (molecules, atoms). While in the case of the Elementary Field, nothing is in motion; it is the spatial distances themselves that fluctuate, while the temporal distribution of these fluctuations remains constant. In the case of absolute Space and Time, we could say that the temperature of the Elementary Field is absolutely homogeneous and constant (absolute flatness). No correlations of the Translation Component of Elementary Action
• observing Charge and electric phenomena: no structured electric charges, no electric potential. No correlations of the Rotation:Chirality Component of Elementary Action
• observing Spin and magnetic phenomena: no structured magnetic poles, no magnetic potential. No correlations of the Rotation:AxisOrientation Component of Elementary Action

From absolute to relative vacuum

From this "primordial soup", from a condition of absolute emptiness—absolute vacuum—generated by the spontaneous formative activity of the Source, through the Action incessantly arising from the creative inner interaction between the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field, and expressed via the three Fundamental Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics—the Uncertainty Principle, the Principle of Action and Reaction, and the Principle of Least Action—correlations (Relations) begin to emerge between the Elementary Events—that is, between temporal distributions of spatial fluctuations of the Field around the Planck scale.

These correlations may manifest through different forms of the Dynamics of the Elementary Action, referred to as its three Modes / Components:

• Perturbation (gradient: correlations in the distributions of intensities of the elementary fluctuations of the event-points of the Field—of the Elementary Events)
• Translation (divergence: correlations in the distributions of the spatial directions of the elementary fluctuations)
• Rotation, in its two subcomponents: Rotation Chirality (correlations in the distributions of the chirality of the intrinsic point-rotation of the elementary fluctuations) and Orientation of the Rotation Axis (correlations in the distributions of the spatial orientation of the axes of intrinsic point-rotation within the elementary fluctuations of the event-points)

The spatial and temporal density of these elementary fluctuations—an approximate average density of 10^105 (10^35 to the third power) spatial fluctuations in a cubic meter to be multiplied by an average frequency of 10^44 fluctuations per second, thus an average density on the order of 10^149 fluctuations per cubic meter per second—is staggering, far exceeding our intuitive understanding based on the dimensions of the physical world we can directly experience. Even considering the infinitesimal dimensions attributed to so-called elementary particles, a very rough estimate for solid matter suggests a density of the order of 10^29 particles per cubic meter. This is an enormous value, but infinitely less than the density of Elementary Events we estimated above. While these estimates are far form precise, the difference in magnitude is impressive, and places insurmountable constraints not only on the possibility of imagining such a scenario, but also, and above all, on the possibility of precise modeling. The deeper we descend into the dimensional abyss, the closer we get to the "engine room" where Reality is incessantly forged, the more we must rely on statistics and synthetic quantities (averages, standard deviations, probabilities) with which we can attempt to summarize this frighteningly detailed, chaotic, and turbulent dynamic, where a slight organization of a vortex-like form can differentiate the absolute vacuum from a Halo of Dark Matter.

This enormous density of dynamism, driven by the intrinsic properties and incessant Action of the Force and the Field, results in the progressive emergence, from a condition of absolute homogeneity and indeterminacy, of subtle and unstable patterns of correlation, which gradually evolve into more stable configurations.

These patterns, identifiable as spatial domains (volumes of the Elementary Field) with heightened correlation densities—particularly in Translation and Rotation within forming Space-time—represent the emergence (the evolution) of the relative from the absolute. Initially stochastically independent Elementary Events gradually begin to manifest correlation patterns (Relations), evolving into Processes: variations or fluctuations initiated by Entities (the Primary Source—the Force-Field pair), organized by Relations (correlations among the temporal distributions of Elementary Events, the spatial infinitesimal fluctuations), in Processes—Information /Energy, object of Evolution (Organization, Transformation, and Selection), which foster increasing causal permanence and Space-time presence/occupation.

These evolving organizational patterns— give rise to emergent Information/Energy and Structures of Information, characterizing the relative vacuum. Given their properties, dynamics, and forms, we refer to them as Dark Structures of Information—the foundational elements of the dark sector of the Universe.

The emergence of the dark side of the Universe

Everything said so far—and everything illustrated later in this evolutionary overview that begins from the Nothing, animated (perturbed) by the expression of the Source (the Action of the Force on the Field) and leading to the infinite multiplicity of the Universe—can be observed and described in different ways: different planes / levels of Reality, different representations that in parallel compose the complete picture of the Formation of Reality.

In this phase of the development of Reality, of the Evolution of the Universe, from the first and most elementary interactions of the Elementary Events, the elementary spatial fluctuations, and the emerging correlations between their temporal distributions—in an incessant swarming of Elementary Action—the first structures, so ephemeral and unstable, in an eternal evolutionary challenge, begin to interact competing to reach even minimal causal permanence, capable of occupying Space and Time and producing other interactions, increasingly complex, albeit still elementary and confined in the dimensional abyss, floating slightly above the Planck scale.

No particles, no waves, none of the interactions we now consider fundamental... Only infinitesimal fluctuations of Space (distances, areas, volumes) resonating around the Planck scale, with emerging very weak inhomogeneities in their temporal distributions, and faint, unstable correlations among these distributions. This is what Reality is made of at the fundamental level: Elementary Action produced by the interaction between the Fundamental Force and the Elementary Field—an internal interplay between the two aspects of the Primary Source of Reality.

Micro-gradients in the elementary dynamics of the Field generate micro-flows, whose interactions give rise to micro-torsions. Inhomogeneities in the temporal distributions of spatial fluctuations around the Planck scale lead to reactions of the Field aimed at restoring homogeneity, whose interactions generate torsional combinations of flows directed toward the conservation of inhomogeneities.

Gradients, flows, torsions. Always and forever—at all dimensional scales—from the infinitesimal to the cosmic. Turbulence, everywhere... And precisely, gradients, flows, torsions are the fundamental dynamic components that give life to turbulence, and its infinite, ever-changing forms. This is one of the core reasons why describing and calculating the physics of the world is so difficult. Turbulence—the most complex of phenomena to model... We search for simplicity, elementality, elegance, and instead we discover complexity, chaos and turbulence—damned turbulence—from which everything originates. We seek objects, things: Particles, Waves, strings, loops, networks, foams... and we encounter Events, Action, incessant mutation, a bubbling of Motion that leaves us breathless... As if trying to build a house not with solid, sturdy bricks, but with vibrant gelatin, fireworks in perpetual explosion, unstoppable whirligigs.

Gradients, flows, torsions. Gradient, divergence and curl. Perturbation, Translation, Rotation (the precursors of Metric/Mass, Motion, Charge'n'Spin respectively). Always this—at every scale—repeated, recombined, in infinite different ways, in the ceaseless construction of Reality. And in other words: Uncertainty, Action and Reaction, Least Action—the Fundamental Principles of Evolutionary Dynamics and three of the main principles of Physics at work.

And we, desperately trying to find stability within turbulence, order within chaos, simplicity within Complexity.

Increasingly complex and large inhomogeneities, ever more enduring within the incessant mutation, the eternal swarming of Reality's foundations—in an infinite field of gradients, flows and torsions—spontaneously organize into the first variational structures (Space-time), exhibiting increasing causal permanence.

And so it continues, in a crescendo of spatial and temporal extension. It is the Creation (production of Events) that supports—and upon which Evolution (production of Relations) is layered, forming Physical Reality and everything it comprises, including ourselves, in an infinite crescendo of Complexity, expanse and duration.

In this ocean of turbulence and Complexity, all we can hope for, all we can attempt at describing the world and making predictions, is to use a multilevel, statistical-probabilistic approach, in which specific physical quantities (e.g. Particles and Waves, quantum objects) emerge as statistical / probabilistic summaries of combined quasi-stochastic / quasi-deterministic Processes, reflecting the Complexity of the underlying, most elementary and fundamental level (the correlations between distributions of Elementary Events). It's impossible to describe a Particle in precise terms through the dynamics of the correlations between the temporal distributions of spatial fluctuations of the Elementary Field caused by the Action of the Fundamental Force. Impossible due to indeterminacy—a fundamental property of Reality, not merely a lack of perfect knowledge. Impossible due to the orders of magnitude involved, to the complexity of the turbulence constituting its dynamics, and to the incomputability of a problem of such scale.

So once again, it is through the organization of Elementary Events (space fluctuations with their peculiar time distributions), Relations (correlations among temporal distributions of Elementary Events), and Processes (Entities / Sources / Forces and Fields pairs that produce Events and Relations) that the first Information and Structures of Information arise.

The first Vortices—the first convective structures in Space-time (which is gradually heating, from the initial zero degree, now at a mean temperature of about 2.7 Kelvin)—characterized by minimal but increasing inhomogeneity, an emerging organization of the Elementary Field, in a very slow evolution that leads to the formation of the first Dark Structures. These, through ongoing aggregation, merging and annihilation processes, fill all available Space—forming what we now understand as the Dark Structure of the Cosmic Web.

Why "Dark"? Because in this initial Formation stage, Reality's structures emerge and gradually expand in the Field—marked by impalpable density, increasing scale, no sharp boundaries, and no clear and univocal dynamics. Everything is nuanced, hazy, gradual. Soft gradients nested within other gradients, uncertain flows like wind ripples between clouds, turbulent eddies twisting and turning, intertwining among gradient, flows and other vortices. It is the intrinsic turbulence of Reality, the formless complexity that precedes formed complexity. Not gas, not ether, not matter in the conventional sense. It is Space itself, Time itself taking form—through their uncertain dynamics. Entities that generate Events and Relations, which organize into Processes. It is the dynamics of the Elementary Field—elementary fluctuations of this infinite and eternal Field—gradually forming the Metric of Space and Time, Space-time, then Mass, Motion, Charge, Spin... and ascending through higher levels of complexity.

Why "Dark", I asked? Because in this phase of the evolution of the Field, of Space-time, of Causality, there are no Particles or Waves, whose interactions produce light and enable the observation of "Ordinary" visible Matter and Energy. In this phase, we are in the "dark"—only Dark Structures form, organize, transform, and are selected by evolution. They expand, grow in extension and duration, progressively occupying all Space and growing in Time. They are the sole performers on the universal stage.

The first (Dark) Structures and their evolution

"Soft gradients nested in other gradients, uncertain flows, turbulent eddies"—in a very slow evolution—lead to the formation of the first Dark Structures.

Ever-larger vortices, always extremely thin, gradually evolve, conquering infinite space. Until they begin to interact, merge, and annihilate. Vortices that extend more and more, rotating slowly in themselves, permeated by the nascent form—vortices of currents of Elementary Events, of Relations, of stochastic Processes that, little by little, through spatial and temporal dimensional expansion, acquire growing deterministic organization and consistency.

Vortices that will evolve into the immense voids that sculpt the outline of the Cosmic Web—while smaller bubbles at the nodes of that web become the cradles of superclusters. Within those bubbles, smaller ones will host clusters of galaxies; and within those, even smaller bubbles, part of the cosmic turbulence, will form the Dark Halos of galaxies, composing their Dark Matter / Dark Energy components. Nested further, smaller bubbles within galactic Halos will give birth to stellar clusters in formation—and so on, unfolding into an endlessly nested structure.

Vortices, bubbles, Halos—with approximate, intertwined, nested shapes that interact in an endless dance, occupying all the Space and all the Time that the Elementary Events, through the correlations between their distributions, trace within the dynamics of the Field, under the incessant Action of the Force.

To understand the shape, dynamics, and evolution of these first Dark Structures, we must refer to the Modes of Elementary Action—Perturbation, Translation, Rotation:Chirality, and Rotation:AxisOrientation—and observe their peculiar profiles:

Profile of Perturbation

Each Vortex—like a mega-Particle of Matter, more or less extended in Space—with its Perturbation profile, is a quasi-spherical, bubble-like gradient: an immense scheme slightly organizing the correlations between the temporal distributions (power spectrum, spatial variation in Time) of elementary spatial fluctuations, which shapes the temporal profile of the vortex Halo. The more intense and rapid the spatial fluctuations in Time, the faster the flow of local Time. The less intense and slower they are, the slower the passage of Time.

This is the Time profile of these bubbles—flat Space and curved Time—which together form the curved Space-time we observe in the Universe. And as expressed by the Principle of General Equivalence, curved Time—positively or negatively (i.e. faster or slower than the universal mean, or respect the average value of a volume far larger of the considered bubble)—can be interpreted as:

• non-zero Mass density (positive: Dark Energy, where Time is faster than average; negative: Dark or Visible Mass, where Time flows more slowly),
• temperature of the Elementary Field (or Space-time, if preferred)—higher or lower than average, corresponding to the subtle variations we observe in the CMB, which we misinterpret as just the Big Bang and Inflation remnants, *velocity of propagation Causality / Action / Information in the Field (or in Space-time)—the speed of Causality (or of expression of Forces), of Action, of Information: the speed of light in vacuum, c-zero, which is no longer a universal constant as in conventional physics, but a limit value that varies through Space and Time, indicating at each point-event in the Universe the maximum speed at which perturbations can propagate.

And in the peripheral regions of the Dark Vortices, in the interactions between different bubbles, and within the Halos, in the interactions between the internal vortical turbulence, correlation flows propagate gradients, contributing to the preservation of inhomogeneities, to their transformation, within a chaotic dance that incessantly (re-)sculpts the architecture of the Universe through that of its components.

Vortices and flows: a cosmic turbulence of Space-time, of the Elementary Field itself, which—through the swarming of Elementary Events—incessantly evolves into the Space-time we observe and measure with rulers and clocks, whose curvature we witness in the dynamics of Masses of Matter—both Dark (invisible) and Ordinary (visible).

Perturbation is the precursor, the source of Mass. Therefore, the profile of Perturbation can be seen and observed as a distribution of Mass, which forms, which gives shape to the structure. Attention: not distribution of Matter, but of Mass. This clarification is not trivial. In fact we are looking at a structure that is not "made of dark matter", but "is a unit, a structure of dark matter", as a particle is a structure of ordinary, visible matter. The Mass possessed by a particle of ordinary matter and that possessed by a structure of dark matter (a tenuous galactic halo for example, but also the structure of dark matter with very low density that hosts the solar system, or other whirling and undulating structures still less dense that make up the impalpable turbulence that shapes the space that we incessantly traverse in the cosmic dance of our body that revolves around the earth, that revolves around the sun, in the galaxy, in the local group, in the cluster of which the milky way is part, in the supercluster that collects it, and so on up to the entire Universe).

Perturbation is the precursor—the origin—of Metric (Space-time geometry) and Mass. Therefore, the profile of Perturbation can be viewed and interpreted as the curvature of Space-time (of Time in fact) and the distribution of Mass—giving Space-time and the Structures within it, as part of it, their shapes. Limiting ourselves here to the topic of InfoStructures in the Field and leaving the Space-time Metrics in the background, we therefore focus on the concept of Mass (negative and positive, Mass proper and Dark Energy respectively) which characterizes the Structures of Dark and Ordinary Matter and their distribution in Space-time. Take care: this is not a distribution of Matter, but of Mass. A distinction that is far from trivial. We are not observing a Structure "made of Dark Matter", but rather a Structure (in the Field) that is Dark Matter itself, just as a Particle is a structured unit of Ordinary visible Matter. The same Mass that characterizes a Particle of Ordinary Matter is the less dense Mass of a Dark Matter Structure (such as a tenuous galactic Dark Halo, or the low-density Dark Matter structure hosting the solar system, or even fainter whirling and undulating formations that comprise the impalpable turbulence shaping the Space-time we perpetually traverse in the cosmic dance of our body orbiting the Earth, which orbits the Sun, within the galaxy, the local group, the cluster containing the Milky Way, the supercluster that collects it, and so on—up to the entire Universe).

Profile of Translation

Alongside the Time profile—Mass density—field temperature—and so on, arises the profile of Translation: an almost spherical gradient, correlated with the Perturbation profile. It is an immense scheme of organization of the correlations between the spatial directions of the temporal distributions of elementary spatial fluctuations—mapping the gravitational profile of the Dark Halo. This profile can also be interpreted as acceleration, as negative divergence toward the center of Mass.

At every point within the Halo—and even outside it (in the absence of gravitational contributions from other structures, other bubbles or Halos)—there is a non-zero amount of Translation directed toward the center of Mass, or "Time center" (the spatial point of the Halo where Time flows most slowly). This Translation is responsible for what we observe as attraction between Masses (dark or visible), or repulsion between structural components of vortex bubbles, the external regions of the Dark Halos, repulsive components that we call Dark Energy (positive Mass, what we could call anti-Mass).

Furthermore, Translation, albeit in a different form and organization, is responsible for, and represents, the Motion of a Structure as a unit, as an object in Space and Time, with its own linear and angular velocity, acceleration, etc.

Translation is the precursor, the root of Motion. Traslation is the Component of the Elementary Action that we see as Motion. Motion is the phenomenon produced by that Action. And it is the Physical Quantity associated to the Information / Energy that characterize the structured Elementary Field (Potential Energy, like gravitational Energy) and the Structures in the Field (effective Energy, like kinetic Energy).

From the point of view of the Elementary Field, the profile of correlation of Translation in the Field can be seen and observed as a profile of the distribution of "potential acceleration" (potential accelerated Motion), which forms and gives shape to the gravitational and kinetic aspects "of" the Field and the Structures "in" it. And from the point of view of the InfoStructures in the Field, the same profile can be seen and interpreted as "effective acceleration" (effective accelerated Motion, growing kinetic Energy), arising from the interaction of Translation of the structured Field and the Translation that shape the Structure propagating in the Field, whose speed is increasing.

Profiles of Rotation

Further complementing the Perturbation and Translation profiles are the profiles of Rotation, expressed in the two sub-modes: Chirality and AxisOrientation—respective precursors of the physical quantities Charge and Spin. Yes, even dark mega-structures, besides having Mass/gravity and Motion, possess Charge and Spin, or better, Chirality (sense of vorticity, which we could call Dark Charge) and AxisOrientation (direction of the axis of vorticity, which we could call Dark Spin).

Thus, even in Dark Structures, Rotation is the precursor to what we recognize as Charge and Spin in Ordinary Matter Particles. Therefore, the Rotation profile can be seen and observed as a distribution of Rotation Chirality and Rotation Axis Orientation, which shapes the analog of Electric and Magnetic aspects, albeit in different forms, with much fainter point intensities and much larger dimensions.

Rotation at the level of the Field's event-points—and the correlations among them—translates into intense magnetic fields and complex phenomena within the Dark Structures that host galaxies, clusters, and form the entire Cosmic Web.

All together

Each Dark Vortex Structure thus possesses its own spatial extent, its own temporal profile, its Mass and a peculiar Mass density profile—arising from its Time/Mass density profile—an internal and external gravitational/acceleration profile (Motion within the Field), an inertia profile (Motion of the structure itself), a Chirality/Charge profile, and an AxisOrientation/Spin - magnetic profile. These culminate in more or less intense frictional mechanical interactions (Chirality) and immense and structured magnetic fields (AxisOrientation) that, together with gravity, govern the development, evolution, and dynamics of cosmic structures.

Focusing particularly on Mass, we can envision these large Dark Structures—which host galaxies, clusters, superclusters, gigantic cosmic voids, and so on—as bubbles, or Halos in more or less regular rotation, composed of an extensive central region characterized by negative Mass (the familiar kind, endowed with attractive power toward other massive structures), the "vast core of low‑density Dark Matter", and a surrounding region characterized by positive Mass (repulsive toward other massive structures), with an even lower density — what we call "Dark Energy".

The Dark Energy region gradually becomes more evident and energetic through interaction (compression) with other Dark Structures, and increasingly repulsive—as expected in the dynamics of fuzzy entities which, when compressed within a finite volume, experience more frequent and energetic collisions (or more accurately, frictions). These external regions, under compression during interaction, become increasingly thin, turbulent, and compressed—triggering large-scale processes that form smaller and denser structures. A true foam of dark bubbles emerges—primarily within regions of highest friction among vast structures—and tends to migrate and accumulate within more spacious and less dynamic interstitial zones (sheets /walls, filaments, nodes that, together with the giant voids, form the Cosmic Web).

This is the first real evolution that, from the continuum, leads to the emergence of a first form of observable discreteness (even if dark), following the early indication observed in the Planck-scale resonances, which presage this fundamental step in the evolution of the organization of the dynamics of Elementary Field.

Immense discrete structures, with spherical-like yet irregular shapes—not precisely delimited or partially overlapped, nested, mutable and interacting. These Dark Structures will be pivotal in enabling the formation of the proportionally minuscule visible Structures: Particles, Waves, and Interactions—the elemental bricks with which Reality constructs the forms, objects, the visible structures of the Universe. Including ourselves—our bodies—and all that is physical and "visible" in our surroundings (composed, in addition to Dark Matter, of "Ordinary" Matter, the very substance of the Standard Model of Particles, so to speak). And as we shall see, Dark and Visible Structures, increasingly intertwined, will conquer all Space and Time—in the ceaseless unfolding of the evolving Universe.

The evolution of Action

We have seen how the first Dark Structures manifested and gradually—across an abyss of Time—came to occupy all available Space, in a dynamic evolution where Time and Mass, the latter being the structural counterpart of the former, and the Structures arising from their organization, played a fundamental role. They were accompanied by other manifestations representing Motion, Charge and Spin—fundamental physical aspects and their corresponding physical quantities.

And all of this is nothing but the product of an absolutely primitive, foundational form of Evolution: the Evolution of Elementary Action, the organization of the dynamics of the Elementary Field. This includes the emergence of the Modes and Components of Elementary Action (Perturbation, Translation, Rotation in its two sub-modes: Chirality and AxisOrientation), and their subsequent evolution into derived forms of Action aligned with these Modes (gravitational, kinetic, electric and magnetic), which in turn evolve into even more complex manifestations (such as weak and strong nuclear interactions), and extend outward into the myriad intricate forms that populate the Universe.

Events (Action)—the true substance from which Reality is made, along with the Relations (Information) that organize them into more complex Events, into Processes—are the dynamic fabric from which Reality is incessantly constructed.

The emergence of the visible side of the Universe

All those Dark Structures, distant from light and from any form of electromagnetic radiation—across the entire spectrum of observable wavelengths and frequencies, from radio waves to the most extreme gamma rays—are nonetheless the causal sources of the emergence of the spectacular visible side of the Universe.

From the incessant and ever-changing interactions and dynamics of these Dark Structures, observable as giant voids, halos of varying sizes, sheets/walls and filaments between them—forming what we recognize as the Dark Cosmic Web—Ordinary Matter arose and continues to arise. This emergence originates at the boundaries of these bubbles, of the Dark Halos, formed by what we hypothesize as Dark Energy generating a swirling dynamic in Space-time. A foam of correlations among the temporal distributions of Elementary Events gives rise to micro Vortices (micro-torsions) and Waves (Micro-flows) that immediately evolve into Particles, accelerated by immense and intense magnetic fields (linked to a locally weak yet widespread correlation in the rotation axes of all point events within the spatial volume of the Dark Structure under consideration).

Imagine these colossal cosmic structures—Halos, bubbles composed of an impalpable, ultra-light Space-time foam, or more precisely, of Elementary Field animated by infinitesimal spatial fluctuations, the Elementary Events. Through their temporal and spatial distributions and correlation schemes, increasingly complex structures are emerged and continue to form.

These bubbles rotate and interact in the ceaseless dynamics of the cosmic foam. Friction emerges in the increasingly compressed peripheral regions, caused by the crowding of Space-time under the Action of a Force that perpetually operates on the Field, continuously generating new Events and new Relations among them. This portion, within the hypothetical structure of these immense halos, is identified as Positive Mass, Dark Energy—an impalpable but extremely energetic turbulence that collides and interacts with counter-turbulence moving in opposite directions, in the counter-rotation acted by Structures that share the same Chirality (counter-rotation that leads to repulsion and friction, precisely).

Micro-gradients, micro-flows and micro-torsions are incessantly produced, splashing outward, particularly along tangential directions to the interacting bubbles, accelerated by the powerful magnetic fields generated by the correlated spatial orientation of the rotation axes of event-points (Rotation AxisOrientation) that sustain these bubbles.

Turbulences within turbulences, micro-turbulences nested within macro-turbulences, so to speak, which we hypothesize—following numerous decay phases—stabilize into the most elementary types of Particles: leptons, ultimately the electrons and positrons, characterized by extremely high Energies and, consequently, significant Masses.

A rarefied but incessant process, at times or locally more intense, consisting of extended episodes of Ordinary Matter formation. These episodes alternate with phases of low production, within an ongoing expansion and contraction of the immense Dark Structures, which—in an incessant, very slow breath motion—generate foam, as the sea does with its waves. Through the resulting collisions of these accelerated elementary Particles, more complex Particles emerge and begin to condense within less extensive yet denser and more massive Dark Halos, like galactic Halos.

Light from the dark. The world of visible structures

The peripheral friction zones of the mega-Halos—arising from compression within the cosmic dark turbulence, in a cosmos that progressively heats up and becomes increasingly structured by the incessant Action of the Source—thus become forges of microscopic, highly energetic turbulence that decays into charged Particles. These regions act as mega Particle accelerators, channeling particles toward collisions capable of converting their immense Energy and relativistic Mass into more complex Structures (quarks, which may decay into nucleons: protons and neutrons).

These vortex-like Structures, Particles, are the building blocks of the first ionized atoms: hydrogen. As they gather additional protons and neutrons, in rare events, some will transmute into helium and other light atomic nuclei.

The gradual emergence of Ordinary visible Matter—produced, collected, and shaped by the dynamics of these immense Dark Structures—radically increases the complexity of the cosmos, propelling the evolution of the Universe toward ever more intricate levels of organization.

The infinitely large, born from the organization of the formless, in the infinitely small, through these Processes, gives rise to structures and forms in the medium-small scale. Worlds deeply unified and causally intertwined, yet separated by staggering orders of magnitude. It's a question of scale:

• Nothingness gives rise to the super small (around Planck-scale fluctuations, emptiness),
• which in a countless time gives rise to the giant (dark megastructures, giant voids, and cosmic dark bubbles / Halos, a cosmic turbulent foam than will host galaxies, clusters, superclusters,somethingness),
• which gives rise to the small (Particles, Waves and Interactions of visible Matter and Radiation),
• which gives rise to the medium-sized (objects),
• then the large (cosmic objects and structures, like galaxies, clusters, superclusters), composing the huge Cosmic Web,
• till the whole immense Universe (wholeness).

From the dynamics within Dark Structures, then between Dark and Visible Structures, and further among Visible Structures within the cosmic fabric—across a vast dimensional spectrum—there emerges a continuous interplay: interaction, actraction, repulsion, friction, conversion, motion, acceleration, collision, transformation, dark, visible, dark, and again, and again...

This is not the beginning, nor the end... But it can be seen as a pivotal step along the path to our own existence. This transition—from the dark side to the visible side of Physical Reality, through Radiation and the exchange of Action and Information / Energy among Particles of Matter—is what allows us to perceive the world around us.

The same Action, the same Information / Energy will continue to shape increasingly complex objects, forms and systems.

Interactions, Relations intensify, structuring themselves in ever new and diverse configurations.

In a Universe fundamentally governed by Mass and gravitational interactions, Charge and Spin, and their related electromagnetic interactions, begin to emerge and grow increasingly prominent.

With the formation of composite particles (starting from "simple" elementary Particles such as leptons), new types of interactions arise—not as fundamental as gravitational or electromagnetic, but "derived" and more complex. These are the interactions of compound structures, such as nucleons, protons and neutrons, and the quarks that constitute them, alongside all the particles—up to the most exotic ones—created and annihilated in the high-energy collisions mentioned earlier. We speak of nuclei, and thereby of the weak nuclear interaction (manifesting in nuclear decays), and the strong nuclear interaction, which binds nucleons in atomic nuclei and quarks within nucleons.

It is the dance of fermions and bosons, from whose relentless interaction all "visible" matter emerges.

And here, at last, is the domain of light and electromagnetic radiation across all wavelengths. Elementary phenomena—emission and absorption—and countless other curious processes; the playground of Quantum Mechanics.

"Let there be light, and there was light"...

Information / Energy everywhere

Sources. Forces acting on Fields. Action that acquires Form. Information. In-Form-Action.

There is a powerful force at work in the Universe—one that drives aggregation, construction, and increasing Complexity, forming the ever-changing Essence / Form of Reality. An organizational operator, let us call it "Organization".

This force operates in continuous competition—and collaboration—with another equally powerful force: one that drives disintegration, dissolution, and simplicity. A transformative operator, let us call it "Transformation". This concept is familiar in science: they often refer to it as the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

But there is more. A third operator completes the triad. We shall call it "Selection". It is the key to evolution and adaptation; the force that embeds the principle ensuring that only what is viable emerges and endures—across an ocean of possibles that trends toward the actual. Possibility converges toward actuality, potential unfolds into real.

Together, this triad—Organization, Transformation, Selection—realizes the Cycle of Information (or of Energy, as Information is often called when referred to the elementary levels of Reality), the true evolutionary engine of Reality.

And what does Information look like in the Universe? Infinite aspects. Infinite structures. Infinite forms. From the most elementary: the basic forms of Energy—Radiant Energy, Matter, Information carried by Radiation, Photons, Waves—Energy / Information that propagate, that preserve itself, that builds the ever-expanding Complexity of the cosmos.

And what about "Complexity"? I like to associate this idea with the causal dimension of Reality—with the expression of Force, the active aspect of the Source; more broadly, with Forces emanating from Sources—linked to the amount of Action expressed by the Source in order to produce that Information / Energy / Structure or Form.

Infinite forms... each with varying levels of Complexity and differing Space-time extensions, dimensionalities, configurations, organizations. Distinct shapes, functions, behaviors, phenomena.

Everything we see in the Universe is Information, Action (Events) with a form (Relations between Events). Ultimately, complex patterns of organization—correlations among temporal distributions of the elementary spatial fluctuations of the Elementary Field, driven by the relentless Action of the Fundamental Force, an expression of the Primary Source:

• Particles
• Radiation
• Atoms
• Molecules
• Gas and Dust
• Stars, Planets and Rocks (any object... yes, even cars, toothpaste, your nose...)
• Black Holes
• Star Clusters
• Galaxies
• Clusters of Galaxies
• Super-clusters
• Cosmic giant structures
• Cosmic Web
• Universe

Atoms and Molecules

Just as collisions between elementary particles—produced and accelerated by the dynamics of immense Dark Structures—have generated and continue to generate composite Particles such as protons and neutrons, so too the collision of these same composite Particles has formed and continues to form the aggregates that constitute the nuclei of the lightest chemical elements: hydrogen, maybe helium, etc.

These nuclei, upon further interactions with other elementary Particles such as electrons, become neutral atoms—the first atoms that gave rise to the gas clouds from which the earliest generation of stars were born (or "third", as it is often termed, in a truly unfortunate and misleading expression), an idea that only adds confusion to the already murky interpretations surrounding the origin and evolution of the Universe.

We have previously illustrated the structure of the atom in earlier sections of this chapter. I won't dwell on it here. What matters most in this context is that there was no "magical" appearance of an immense quantity of Matter, later unfolding into the Universe we observe today (as proposed by Big Bang / Inflation models). Rather, the formation of Ordinary Matter occurred—and continues to occur—albeit at different rhythms throughout cosmological epochs, moment by moment, across vastly dilated time spans, driven by the intricate dynamics of Dark Structures, they too born from the eternal dynamics of the Elementary Field.

Just as we assume that the Universe is evolving and will continue to evolve in an infinite time in the past and in the future, therefore infinite time and space, so too Energy and Matter are infinite. To infinity, new Information is constantly added, in the form of Energy and Matter.

Atoms that, through renewed collisions / interactions, establish bonds and form molecules (yes, always Relations—we might speak here of quantum correlations, entanglement, particle sharing, boson exchange, wave interactions, and more).

Gas, gas everywhere... light elements

Due to the mechanism behind the creation of Ordinary (visible) Matter, all available Space is filled with Dark Structures, with a few sprinkles here and there of Particles, atoms, and small molecules, lighter chemical elements—spread throughout the cosmos. Their densities vary, but they remain consistently light, forming lumps, streams, and peculiar dynamics that animate the turbulent life of these fertile regions.

Atoms and molecules, shaped by the evolving dynamics of Dark Structures—and now influenced by emerging dynamics of visible Structures—begin to form rarefied clouds of gas. As these clouds expand, they gradually collapse, forming disks and protostars, then stars, stellar clusters, small galaxies, and so forth.

And within those stars—in their incandescent furnaces and explosive deaths—larger and more complex atoms are forged. These processes lead to more mature stars, whose successive generations synthesize heavier and more intricate atoms and molecules. An unceasing evolution, opening the door to fresh chemical complexity.

Molecular clouds, primarily composed of molecular hydrogen, can contain pockets of denser gas. These become stellar nurseries—cradles for rapidly evolving protostars that continue to grow, thanks to the abundance of gas which cools and concentrates under the influence of gravity.

Thus, as these clouds thicken and gradually collapse toward the centers of Mass of smaller, denser bubbles, they give rise to the first stars—furnaces where heavier chemical elements are born. These elements then contribute to the stars of future generations, alongside the dust released by the explosive deaths of the earliest stars.

Eventually, gas, dust, and stellar debris progressively give rise to increasingly complex objects—stars of newer generations, solar systems, planets, satellites, and onward to the diverse and intricate forms we now observe across the cosmos.

Anywhere, at any distance, in any era, throughout an infinite Space—within a Time that neither began nor will ever end.

Protons and electrons... Hydrogen... Neutrons... Other atoms... Tiny molecules... Maybe a few helium atoms... Gas everywhere... Light elements... Dust... Structure... Structures... Still more structures...

The cosmos takes form

These are the dominant forms in the Universe: - dark structures -> the dark cosmic web - visible structures -> gas, dust, stars and other celestial objects - dark and visible structures together -> groups of stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, super-clusters, super-structures—the entire evolving cosmos, the Universe

The dark dance is gradually infused with light, radiant energy, and infinite local dynamics, all combining to generate the vast Complexity of an ever-evolving Universe.

From this dark cosmic dynamic, which encompasses immense and invisible Structures immersed in the universal dark turbulence, the increasingly intricate dynamics of visible Matter have emerged—and continue to emerge. It's a grand dance involving every Structure, every Form, in this boundless, infinite, and eternal Universe that cradles us, of which—like our planet—we are a highly complex and unceasing evolving part.

Yet the truly dominant form of the cosmos, as within the dynamics of the Elementary Field across all spatial magnitudes, is turbulence—something that exists in the sense that it happens, as does all of Reality. Always Processes. Events. These are organized through Relations—correlations between distributions of variations within the Field, shaped by the Action of the Force, the expression of the Source of Reality.

This eternal and boundless turbulence—the roiling of Space-time, with its infinitesimal temperature variations, nested convective flows, and swirling vortices—is the fountainhead of the Universe's staggering Complexity.

From this vast yet intangible turbulence arises a dynamic structure known as the Cosmic Web—with its inseparable dark and visible elements. A cosmic foam composed of colossal bubbles of ultra-low-density Dark Matter / Dark Energy. In the frictional boundary zones between these vast voids, smaller—yet still immense—Dark Structures condense and compress: sheets / walls, filaments, nodes. Sheets / walls, filaments collect the newly formed Ordinary Matter, and favor the formation of stars, galaxies, and convey them towards the nodes. Nodes host super-clusters, which sometimes randomly gather smaller clusters—thousands of galaxies locked in gravitational dance, each comprising a dark halo and a visible part: luminous Matter, gas, dust, stars, celestial bodies, black holes, and either active or dormant galactic cores).

In the peripheral zones of each dark bubble—within the cosmic interstices—friction between regions of positive density, which we call Dark Energy, gives rise to the processes forming Ordinary (visible) Matter: elementary and composite particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules, gases, and more. An infinite, magnificent cosmic foam.

This bubbling of Space-time, of the Elementary Field taking form, is ceaselessly heated by the Action of the Force—the unending expression of the Source.

From Formlessness, Form emerges, always and forever. Turbulence across all dimensions—foam, halos, bubbles, Matter, Energy, Radiation. Ever-deepening organization and Complexity. Everything interacts with everything. The Whole interacts with itself.

An incessant explosion of Forms

Again... Atoms, Molecules, Gas, Dust, Stars and Planets, Star Clusters, Black Holes, Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies, Super-clusters, Cosmic giant structures, Cosmic Web...

What else can be said about this incessant explosion of Forms, which do not merely give rise to—but indeed embody—the ever-expanding structure of this turbulent Field, where Causality and Variationality, the two inseparable expressions of the Agency of the Primary Source, intertwine in an infinite and eternal dance, at once creative and evolutionary? Everything we observe, whether directly or indirectly—whether intuited or deduced—is Information (which, in its most elementary and "physical" form, manifests as Energy, and this in the forms of Matter and Radiation).

In-Form-Action. Ultimately, the Form of Action—Events woven together by Relations, always Processes. Ubiquitous and perpetual. Physical processes rendered through cognitive constructs, mathematical and conceptual processes—both stochastic and deterministic—processes that, from a dominance of random aspects and stochastic independence, evolve through formative dynamics, giving rise to emergent tendencies and increasingly determined characteristics. Chaos and order together, in a creative and evolutionary disequilibrium, finding precarious local balances that propagate through Reality, conserve in Reality, and incessantly form Reality—giving Form to Reality in its unfolding.

If we look at Events, we see Action. If we look at the Relations (between the Events), we see Information. Two aspects of the same Reality. We observe the Reality which is incessantly forming before our eyes, but in observing its evolution we cannot grasp its Form, which is constantly changing (even if due to "slow" processes we are not aware of it, we immersed in the illusion of a static nature). To observe the Form we have to stop Time, like taking a snapshot. In a photograph we don't see the Reality that takes form, that takes a shape. We are not observing the present as it happens. We observe the past, which was formed but which is no longer. We do not witness events as they happen. We see the relations between the events that gave rise to that Form. The relations that organize the complexity we see.

If we look at Events, we see Action. If we examine the Relations between Events, we see Information. Two aspects of one and the same Reality. We observe Reality as it incessantly forms before our eyes. Yet, while perceiving its evolution, we cannot grasp its Form—because that Form is always changing (even if due to "slow" processes we remain unaware, suspended in the illusion of permanence, of a static nature). To observe Form, we must freeze Time—capture a snapshot. In a photograph, we do not witness Reality taking shape—we see the outcome at a given instant. Not the present in its happening, but the past, already formed and irretrievably gone, although Information relating to that past may result in propagation in multiple directions of Space, for virtually infinite Time (the Information about the Event is Space-time relative, the happening of it is absolute, even if in Space-time we can't have absolute point of reference). We do not witness Events as they happen—we perceive the Relations between Events, through the Relations between us and Events. The Relations that organize the Complexity we see in the world, the architecture of Complexity.

What differentiates Action from Information is precisely Time. Information (and Energy conceived as "simple" Information) is Action arrested in Time, devoid of Time. In physics, Action is defined as and has the dimensions of F x s x t. Force multiplied by spatial variation (Field deformation) and temporal variation, the Time in which the spatial variation, the Field deformation, is produced. Energy, then, is Action divided by Time—or Force times spatial variation (field deformation) alone.

So how do we truly capture the Form—the shape of Reality? We stop Time. We take snapshots (an observation, a measure, always interactions, inter-actions, exchange of Action). It doesn't matter whether with a phone camera, a space telescope spectrograph, or an expensive detector of a high-energy particle collider. The snapshot reveals the fruit—the product of the Events, the deformation of the Field prior to the capture. Even though we would like to experience Reality in its formation (Events), in the end we always observe Reality already formed (Relations between Events), that is, the Form of Reality, not its Formation in act. We observe, measure, Information (or Energy in the basic physical domain) and not the Action that underlines and sustains it.

We cannot simultaneously experience Reality and observe its Form with infinite precision (we can see this statement as a generalization of the combination of the quantum complementarity principle and the uncertainty principle). Because its Essence / Form is incessantly transforming—even if we fail to perceive it (illusion of stability, of immutability). This interplay between Physical Reality and its representation (Cognitive Reality) resonates with the Principle of Indetermination: we cannot observe or measure two "conjugated" physical quantities with infinite precision—such as position and momentum, or Energy and Time. What distinguishes these pairs? Always Time. It is Time that distinguishes what happens from the form in which it happens, that separates occurrence from structure—Action from In-Form-Action.

Creation and Evolution, Events and Relations, Action and Information/Energy. This is a fundamental key to the Knowledge of Reality.

The Universe as a whole

The Universe as a whole—infinite, unlimited, and eternal—is a very particular system: the system of all systems.

It is a system that is simultaneously open and closed, because the causal (Fundamental Force—the primary causal Agent) and variational (Elementary Field—the primary variational Acted) origin, the Source of Reality, in its expression as Agency, is both transcendent (Causality) and immanent (Variationality).

We may say that this system—the Universe in Evolution—is an immense, infinite "transmuter", a changer of Form.

Causality (Force) as input, Complexity (variational transformation—variation in the Form of the Field) as output.

The Universe, as the present section of the whole Reality, is at once formative (creative and evolutive), dynamic(al), and conservative.

It is an incessant flow of Existence and Essence / Form, spanning both the physical and cognitive domains of Nature, of which, as physical and cognitive creatures, we ourselves are an integral part.

Universe—Uni-verse, a multiplicity evolving toward the One—toward Unity, an infinity of directions converging into a single overarching direction, the unfolding of Reality in its entirety.

That accounts for the past and present of the Universe. And the future? What should we expect? Admittedly, it may seem an irrelevant question for mortal beings who—even at the species level—possess a rather limited temporal horizon. But as you know, curiosity and the thirst for understanding know no bounds.

Given that none of us will likely be able to verify whether the hypotheses and predictions we formulate will come true, what might we propose for the future of the Universe?

Thermal death, vacuum decay, dissolution of all matter, relocation of galaxies beyond the observable horizon, cyclic universe, big crunch, big rip, big bounce, big what? Well, I personally place little faith in any of these hypotheses. I find them grounded in flawed assumptions that fail to account for the fundamental nature of Reality, and overlook the cosmological dynamics increasingly revealed by refined observations.

I do not believe the Second Law of Thermodynamics (in this model represented as the "Transformation" operator) will prevail over the fundamental tendency of Reality to evolve by construction ("Organization" operator). Gravity versus electromagnetism?

Cosmic expansion is not truly the expansion of Matter into Space nor of Space itself. It is a phenomenon—the slowing of Time with a consequent decrease in the speed of propagation of Causality/Action/Information—arising from the progressive structuring of the Elementary Field under the incessant creative/evolutionary pressure of the Fundamental Force, the very expression of the Source of Reality.

The formation of new Matter—especially visible Matter—follows local dynamics, governed by the interactions among the peripheral regions of immense Dark Structures, whose production, even if variable in rate, never ceases.

My hypothesis, based on the Fundamental Nature of Reality as outlined in this paper, is that the Universe will continue evolving for all eternity. Ever-new Time, ever-new organization. Ever-new Energy and Matter incessantly emerge. Ever-new Structures and Forms endlessly unfold. Interactions growing ever more intricate...

At least so long as the Source continues to exert its formative pressure upon Reality. Ever-new Force (Causality) will unfailingly generate new Action, ever-new variations in the Field (Variationality). Ever-new Causality will give rise to ever-greater Complexity. Ever-new Agency by the Source. Endless Formation: Creation "and" Evolution.

What did we expect to observe?

This is the hardest part: making predictions based on a model built on hypotheses—hypotheses built upon other hypotheses. But we need to move forward. Let's attempt to assemble the pieces and connect the evidence emerging from increasingly abundant—and increasingly accurate—observations.

From recent observations and analyses—enabled by powerful new tools now available to the scientific community, alongside increasingly comprehensive and accurate simulations—a very different picture emerges from the one predicted by the most widely accepted cosmological models. We hear talk of crises, and day after day we read commentaries urging a revision of the foundational pillars of contemporary scientific understanding.

The hypotheses and proposals set forth in this work—the very foundation of this section, of the "Brief History of the Universe" outlined here—seem to imply a vision of the cosmos and its dynamics markedly distinct from that described until now, and largely "defended" by institutional science.

What should we expect to observe on the basis of the hypotheses and proposals expressed here? What might we anticipate, according to this Evolutionary Cosmological Model and the alternative cosmic history we've suggested?

Let's address the most significant aspects...

The general view

A Universe far more complex than the one described by the prevailing model (Lambda-CDM or ΛCDM) and all its derivatives. A much older Universe. And much wider. That is, a widening of the Universe across all three fundamental dimensions of Reality: Causality (Complexity), Spatiality (extension / distances), and Temporality (age / durations).

According to our hypotheses, the farther we peer into Time—and thus into Space—the more we should expect to see complex, large, and ancient objects, well-formed and comparable to those observed in the nearby Universe.

We should observe similar variability in shape and age among these objects (galaxies and clusters) as we do in more recent epochs. However, we believe that a luminosity-based selection effect plays a substantial role (smaller or formative objects—or generally non-luminous bodies—may be too faint to detect, even with the aid of powerful gravitational lenses). Deep-field regions are so narrow that it can be difficult to observe entire clusters with sufficiently representative galactic populations.

Therefore, we might observe individual galaxies with very high redshift, distinguished by intense luminosity—forming galaxies teeming with low-metallicity stars emitting strongly, and ancient, well-formed galactic giants—luminous due to their immense mass, likely fueled by extremely active galactic nuclei that amplify their brightness.

A characteristic foamy structure

A distinctive foamy structure, with "immense voids bounded by denser regions—walls/sheets, filaments, and nodes populated with smaller bubbles rich in visible Matter". These immense Dark Structures host galaxies (nodes also hosting clusters and superclusters) and exhibit peculiar dynamics of attraction and repulsion—sometimes governed by prevailing attractive gravitational interactions, other times by repulsive effects caused by the overlapping of regions of positive Mass density (Dark Energy), arising from the degree of compression within the bubbles/Dark Halos that comprise the Cosmic Web.

A peculiar CMB shape / anisotropies distribution

The anisotropy pattern of the CMB appears not to originate from the configuration and dynamics of the early stages of the Universe's development, but rather from the current distribution ("current" in a relativistic sense) of Energy and Matter—and therefore the "temperature of the structured Elementary Field" (essentially tied to the distribution of Dark Matter and Dark Energy). Accordingly, the spatial distribution of anisotropies in the CMB should reflect the Space-time configuration of the cosmos's present structure—the Cosmic Web, especially its dark components—and its dynamics.

The anisotropy distribution across Space-time can be represented by a power spectrum marked by peaks and valleys, which should correspond respectively to the regions of lowest temperature in the Elementary Field (filaments and nodes of the cosmic web, areas with higher concentration of bubbles—halos of medium and small size hosting clusters and galaxies) and regions with relatively higher temperatures (low density gigantic voids occupying the gaps in the Cosmic Web mesh).

This picture is counterintuitive, as one might expect higher temperatures in zones where Dark and visible Matter concentrate most. But it's worth noting that the equivalence between Mass density (positive -> repulsive Dark Energy, negative -> attractive Dark and Visible Matter) and temperature at the level of the Elementary Field associates lower temperature with regions of lower Perturbation values That is, reduced intensities of the temporal distributions of the spatial fluctuations -> lower density of Elementary Events, slower time flow, diminished propagation speed of Causality / Action / Information, temperature of the Field lower than the universal mean (universal instantaneous Mass density) or relative to surrounding regions (local instantaneous mass density).

The power spectrum of the CMB and its Space-time configuration contain significant insights into the physical properties of the cosmic regions that envelop us, while bearing in mind that the thermal emission of the disturbed Field propagates through the Field itself and its observed intensity decreases with the square of the distance.

Differences in the rates of expansion of the cosmos

The tension between Hubble constant estimates derived from different observational methods—each probing distinct epochs in the Universe's history—has grown increasingly severe and concerning. It's evident to many that something fundamental may be flawed.

There are numerous possibilities. One or more methods may be erroneous or misinterpreted. Data may be plagued by systematic biases or instrumental limitations. Processing techniques may be not corrected or improperly applied. Photons and electromagnetic waves may undergo substantial transformations over vast temporal / spatial scales. The observed quantities themselves may not be temporally constant (e.g., masses might vary over time, as might light / photons). Space-time itself may have been—or continue to be—subject to distortions influencing measurements and, by extension, the inferred estimates.

This persistent tension could be attributed to one or several of these causes—or even a combination of all. Or perhaps something deeper eludes our grasp. Something fundamental in the model of the Universe—its origin, evolution, dynamics, structure, and the relationships among what exists. Yes... what truly exists...

It's no secret that, despite the tremendous achievements of science, our understanding of what exists and why it exists remains scant. I know this sounds merciless, but I'm not the one who claimed we understand only about 5% of the Energy/Matter content of the Universe (i.e., visible, "baryonic" matter), and nothing of the remaining 95%. Framed like that, it's sobering.

Based on the framework offered in this paper, it becomes evident that we should not expect a constant rate of cosmic expansion across all times and regions. Nor should we expect literal expansion in the form of increasing spatial distances or expanding space. Perhaps space isn't expanding at all. Perhaps the observed expansion arises from a phenomenon of a different nature—perhaps it is the deceleration of the flow of time (and, consequently, a reduction in the speed of light). This deceleration could stem globally from the increasing complexity in the organizational level of the Elementary Field (involving more structures, both visible and dark matter and energy), and locally from the nuanced, intricate dynamics of interacting structures.

From these locally (spatially and temporally) differentiated dynamics emerge what we interpret as varying "rates of expansion" and thus different Hubble constant values. It would therefore be the evolving Space-time structures themselves that determine the perceived expansion—not of Space, but rather of Time slowing down, thereby altering the propagation speed limit of Causality / Action / Information (commonly identified with the speed of light in vacuum).

No plausible signs of Big Bang and Inflation

Observations increasingly challenge the dominant cosmological model while lending support to alternative hypotheses.

It's striking how swiftly academic science rushes to reinforce prevailing models—dismissing new evidence, offering improbable interpretations, or arbitrarily modifying timelines and expanding distance scales of the Universe.

If, as we propose:

• expansion is not true spatial expansion, but a phenomenon resulting from progressive organization of the Elementary Field toward higher Complexity,
• the CMB is not a relic of the Big Bang / Inflation, but the blackbody emission of the Elementary Field in the "current" cosmos, with its peaks and valleys corresponding to the massive structures populating the Universe,
• the initial composition of Matter (hydrogen / helium ratio) was not established through nucleosynthesis as described in the standard cosmological model—a model which, frankly, lacks robust empirical grounding (do we understand quantum mechanics and quantum field theory so well that we can confidently trace the transition from quark-gluon soup to stable protons and neutrons?)—but has instead emerged and continues to emerge variably across Space and Time, governed by the unique dynamics of vast dark bubbles and particularly the "friction" at their peripheral zones,

then, with these foundational "evidences" removed, what remains of the Big Bang and Inflationary model?