Given that our universe is expanding, it wasn’t hard to calculate back to when it began. Big bang theory is that about 14 billion years ago our entire universe existed at one point, that then exploded out to become what we see today, but for this to be true, several miracles had to happen.
The first miracle was that everything in our universe had to come from nothing. This is a miracle because from nothing, nothing comes, so how can a universe come from nothing? This is the something from nothing miracle.
The second miracle was that the entire universe once existed at a point of infinite density. This is a miracle because by the laws of physics, matter at that density should immediately collapse into a black hole, from which even light can’t emerge, so the universe would be stillborn. This is the singularity miracle.
To avoid this, Guth proposed inflation theory (Guth, 1998), that an immense anti-gravity field expanded the singularity faster than light for 10-32 seconds so it didn’t become a black hole. This solved one miracle by proposing another, because according to relativity, nothing can move faster than light. This is the faster than light miracle.
This immense field then vanished as suddenly as it appeared, for no reason, to play no further part in our universe. This is the vanishing field miracle, because no other fields of physics have ever suddenly vanished.
Instead of thinking that God created the universe, experts now believe that it came from nothing, to exist at a single point, that was expanded faster than light, by a massive field that then vanished for no reason, leaving the universe to sedately evolve into galaxies, stars, and us. But how is trading one miracle for four a better story despite its scientific veneer? Now consider an alternative with no miracles, given only that quantum reality exists, just as quantum theory describes it.
A universe that began needs something to begin it, so what if quantum reality not only exists but always did? It could then create our universe, but how can one thing create another thing? One way, for a network, is to create a virtual reality based on server-client relations. A server-client relation is one network point telling one or more others what to do. For example, if I print this page, my device is the server that tells the client printer what to print. More detail follows, but a quantum wave can then be client events spreading on a network. This lets the server directing those events restart the wave if things go wrong, just as if a printer jams, I can clear it and restart the print. That the physical world is a virtual reality based on client events avoids the something from nothing miracle.
If our universe is virtual, as proposed here, it should start up as our software environments do. When you turn on a Windows device, it first loads a tiny CMOS program, that then loads a kernel program, that then loads a bigger BIOS, that then loads the full Windows environment, so it starts in a step-wise manner, not all-at-once. If the quantum network did the same, the first event only needed to create one quantum wave, one photon. That our universe began as one photon avoids the singularity miracle, because that won’t collapse into a black hole.
To create a photon, one quantum network point just has to give its activity to its neighbors, to became a server. Doing this then left a Planck size hole in the network, so space also began when our universe did. This white-hot speck of light then caused other points to do the same, just as a pinprick in a taught fabric quickly becomes a big rip. Inflation was then the quantum fabric separating into servers and clients, to generate an initial plasma that was:
“… essentially inhabited by massless entities, perhaps largely photons.” (Penrose, 2010), p176.
Server events are faster than client events because directing an event is easier than doing it. If quantum servers are the same, the act of creation was faster than light because it was a server chain reaction, not the client transfer rate of light. This avoids the faster-than-light miracle, but why didn’t it continue forever?
Each step of the creation chain reaction produced both light and space. More space increased the wavelength of light to dilute its energy, so light that was white-hot at the dawn of time is now cold. Light grew exponentially, as light begat light, but space as a hypersphere surface grew as a cubic function, so it will overpower exponential growth if the resolution is quick (Figure 2.12), as physics says it was (Note 1). If space expanding stopped the creation by cooling the light causing it, this avoids the vanishing field miracle
It follows that the big bang wasn’t big, at first anyway, nor was it a bang, as initially there was no space to explode into. It was a rip in the primal reality that made both light and space. The quantum network separating itself into servers and clients to create the quantum waves that cause physical events, so it was giving not taking, a gift not a discovery. Space expanding then healed the rip, but not before it created our finite universe. Our universe came from something not nothing, it began as a speck of light, followed by a burst of creation that healed itself. No miracles are needed if quantum reality exists.
After our universe began, space carried on expanding, to cool it down, so the expansion of space isn’t just an oddity of physics. We only exist because the universe cooled down enough for life to evolve.
Note 1. In inflation theory, an immensely strong anti-gravity field pulled the entire physical universe from the size of a proton to the size of a baseball faster than the speed of light, then 10-32 of a second later that field conveniently disappeared forever.