There is an alternate explanation for the universe that states that, for us, the Milky Way is the largest setting in which we are 'married' into a communal setting, and we are 'divorced' of all other seen&unseen realities found in the universe. This fits with Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems.
The universe is then a collective, and never an entity, just like a nation is a collective, and never a person.
Matter likes to 'marry' to matter, but can only do so with matter nearby (as Gödel already told us using other words), and the material reality came into being after the 'divorce' took hold (my saying this) and we therefore have a 'divorced' reality at the universal level only (as Gödel told us using other words).
https://fred-rick.medium.com/two-closed-systems-not-one-3d66da5b8dff
Time is a phenomenon, and scientists seem to have a mind that cannot comprehend it. I am not sure if you can hear me, Michael, when I say that scientists are locked into a structure that is unfortunately based in religion. They would be the first to deny this, and that is the painful part.
For instance, when reviewing their knowledge about the beginning of the materialization process, they are turning everything there is into one reality (a singularity of unknown mathematical proportions), and that is not what the factual information tells them.
We have knowledge about the beginning of matter, but we do not have any knowledge about the beginning of energy, time, or space. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
And yet, they throw everything into a single hat and pronounce it as one unified reality. That is not very scientific, is it? That is a religious position.
When time capsules were sent into space, coming back with a different time shown on the clocks, the conclusion was that time is not always the same.
That is an awkward conclusion. Matter is sent into space with a time display and the time display changed compared to similar ones that stayed on Earth. That scientific brain is not matured enough. They should have concluded that any matter, and it does not matter how stable it is on Earth, changes when placed in a different spatial context.
But, no, they are wagging the dog and declared time had changed.
The entire universe exists in the Now, and has always existed in the Now only. Change occurs, particularly in light of matter (because we do not know or have any other information about energy when all by itself). Yet time is a phenomenon, real but nothing actual by itself. It is in the Now that change is occurring, and therefore we do have a past reality that is part of the present telling us that the present is no longer as it was prior.
It is the scientific brain, Michael. It has not matured to the point they don't fall into self-created rabbit holes. There are self-fulfilling ideas in science and it is truly difficult to get out of them when the mind is not critical of the mind itself enough.
Same with Energy that does not get lost. Any person accepting this as true can subsequently not ask where energy came from because that would violate the first accepted truth that energy does not get lost. Gödel already made it obvious that we cant say two things that conflict with one another and make them one. These scientists’ brains are asleep at the wheel.
When energy cannot get lost, then it also need not be found.
The story about our material universe is about matter first appearing; it is not about figuring out where energy came from, scientifically, because there simply is no data. To declare that we cannot look into the prior state at all is a subsequent lie because we can look at it from a generic perspective.
Like the past being an aspect of the present, we can accept that matter should always be seen as a result. All agree to the fact that matter is a result. Yet, many think the past is disengaged from the present and that is simply not true. So, one can say there was a prior, but it needs to be understood as intrinsically linked to the result. Anyone demanding evidence for energy prior to matter is like a person holding keys in their hands asking other people if they have seen this person's keys.
I do appreciate that your article looks for and finds the boundaries of our perceptions. Good job, because there is more to discover in that realm.
For instance, if the ‘divorce’ produced the neutrons and protons as the nuclei of atoms, then the ‘marrying’ aspect is found immediately with the electrons that are the reaction to the positive charges of the protons. We have a distinctly charged subatomic reality, yet the universe as a whole is charged neutrally. QM is one reality, GR is another reality. Gödel at its best. Both are true and cannot be melded into one.