Based on how fast our universe is expanding, scientists calculated back to when it began. Big bang theory is that about 14 billion years ago our entire universe existed at one point that exploded out to become what we see today, but for this to be true, several miracles had to happen.
The first was that everything in our universe had to come from nothing. It is a miracle because from nothing, nothing comes, so how can a universe come from it? This is the something from nothing miracle.
The second miracle was that our entire universe initially existed at a point, called a singularity. It 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. He solved one miracle by proposing another, because according to relativity, nothing can move faster than light. This is the faster than light miracle.
This huge field then vanished as suddenly as it appeared, for no reason, to play no further part in our universe. It is a miracle because no other fields of physics have ever suddenly vanished. This is the vanishing field miracle.
Instead of saying that a great being created the universe, physics now says that it came from nothing, existed at a point, that expanded faster than light, thanks to a massive field, that then vanished for no reason, leaving the universe to slowly evolve into galaxies, stars, and us. But how is trading one miracle for four a better theory, despite its scientific veneer? The alternative is to avoid these miracles by letting our universe began as a little rip in the primal reality.
A universe that began must begin from something, so if quantum reality exists now, it could have existed before our universe to begin it. But how can one reality give rise to another? One way that we know a network could is to create a virtual reality based on server-client relations.
A server-client relation is when one network point tells another what to do. For example, if I print this page, my laptop tells the printer what to print, so it is a server and the printer is a client. If a client job fails, the server can just restart it, so my laptop can resend the page to the printer if it doesn’t work. That a quantum wave is a set of client events spreading on a network then explains how it can restart again in a physical event. The server directing the quantum wave can restart it if it fails, just as I can restart a print that fails. That the physical world began as server-client events then avoids the something from nothing miracle.
If our universe is virtual, as proposed here, it should begin as software environments do. When a Windows computer is turned on, 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. The software loads in a step-wise manner not all-at-once. If our universe did the same, the first event only had to create one photon to start it off. That our universe began as one photon avoids the singularity miracle, because it won’t collapse into a black hole.
To create a photon, or one quantum wave, a network point had to give its activity to its neighbors, to became a server directing client events. Doing this left a Planck size hole in the network, so space also began when our universe did. This white-hot speck of light could then trigger other points to do the same, just as a little rip in a taught fabric can quickly become a big rip. Inflation was then the quantum fabric separating into servers and clients, to giving 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 faster than doing it, so if quantum servers are the same, the act of creation was faster than light because it was a server chain reaction, not at the client rate of light transfer. This avoids the faster-than-light miracle, but why didn’t inflation then continue forever?

In the above model, each step of the inflation chain reaction produced both light and space. Increasing 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, which will overpower exponential growth if the resolution is quick (Figure 2.12), as physics says it was (Note 1). If space expanding stopped inflation 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 little rip in the primal reality that made both light and space. Parts of the quantum network separated into servers and clients to create the quantum waves that generate physical events, so it was borne not manufactured. Space expanding then healed the rip, but not before our finite universe had begun. After that space continued to expand, cooling the universe down, so that space expands isn’t just an oddity of physics, as we only exist because it cooled the universe enough to accommodate us.
In conclusion, our universe came from something not nothing, as a tiny rip gave a speck of light not everything, followed by an outward push not a pull, that was healed by the expansion of space not a field. No miracles are needed when quantum reality is reverse engineered.
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.