Global human civilization is facing unprecedented systemic crises: ecological destruction, social inequality, political conflicts, economic turmoil, and technological risks exhibit cumulative, intergenerational, and irreversible trends. From a scientific-philosophical perspective, this paper proposes that the fundamental crisis of human civilization stems from a long-standing erroneous cosmology—a geocentric or anthropocentric mode of cognition. This cognitive error profoundly affects worldviews, life views, and institutional design, leading to severe misalignment between industrial civilization and natural laws, while simultaneously amplifying the global crises caused by humanity’s (...) boundless greed. -/- Based on a systematic analysis of this structural crisis, this paper proposes the Lao‑Yang Genesis Cosmology as a scientific salvaging framework. This cosmology reveals the chain of cosmic generation and natural laws, establishing a logical closed loop from cosmology → worldview → life view → civilization, providing a scientific basis for the systematic reconstruction of education, institutions, technology, and culture. At the same time, it introduces the principles of natural civilization, including system embedding, feedback loops, and adherence to natural laws, offering an operational framework for global governance, intergenerational responsibility, and sustainable development. -/- By guiding the reconstruction of civilization through a scientific cosmology, this paper demonstrates the only viable path for the salvation of human civilization: cultivating systemic thinking through education, constraining behavior through institutional design, innovating technologies in accordance with ecological and systemic rules, and strengthening the cultural value system in recognition of the unity of humanity and nature. Ultimately, global civilization can achieve low-entropy operation, intergenerational fairness, ecological sustainability, and systemic stability, avoiding irreversible collapse caused by cognitive errors and human greed. This work not only provides a new paradigm for philosophy and social sciences but also offers scientific guidance and practical pathways for global sustainable development. (shrink)

A few remarkable examples of alternative cosmological theories are shown, ranging from a compilation of variations on the Standard Model (inhomogeneous universe, Cold Big Bang, varying physical constants or gravity law, zero-active mass, Milne cosmology, cyclical models), through the more distant quasi-steady-state cosmology, plasma cosmology, or universe models as a hypersphere such as the Dynamic Universe, to the most exotic cases including static models with non-cosmological redshifts of galaxies. -/- Most cosmologists do not usually work within the framework (...) of alternative cosmologies very different from the standard one because they feel that these are not at present as competitive as the standard model. It is true that they are not so developed, but that is because cosmologists do not work on them. This vicious circle is to a great extent due to a sociological phenomenon known as the "snowball effect", in which resources are distributed to the most successful theory at a given time; the effect acts as a potential in a field that attracts cosmologists, causing funds, research positions, prestige, telescope time, publication in top journals, citations, conferences, and other resources to be dedicated almost exclusively to standard cosmology. (shrink)

I discuss the relevance of the current predicament in cosmology to the debate over scientific realism. I argue that the existence of two, empirically successful but ontologically inconsistent cosmological theories presents difficulties for the realist position.

Modern cosmology provides a highly successful effective description of the universe across vast ranges of scale and time. Within the standard ΛCDM framework, phenomena such as inflation, late-time acceleration and the global structure of cosmic time are treated as distinct explanatory components, each motivated by specific observational or theoretical considerations. Despite their empirical adequacy, the conceptual status of these elements remains unsettled. In this paper, we examine cosmology from a generative–projective perspective, which distin- guishes between underlying generative conditions and the (...) standard cosmological reconstruction through which cosmological phenomena are described. From this viewpoint, spacetime geom- etry, cosmic time and expansion dynamics are not treated as fundamental primitives but as reconstructed parameters introduced under specific symmetry assumptions and global parame- terizations. We argue that several central features of contemporary cosmology—including early-universe inflation, dark energy and the apparent temporal origin of the universe—arise necessarily at the boundaries of applicability of the standard cosmological reconstruction. Using an illustrative toy model, we show that accelerated expansion and temporal ordering may reflect structural limitations in cosmological reconstruction and parameterization, rather than distinct underlying physical mechanisms. This reinterpretation preserves the empirical success of standard cosmological models while reducing their ontological commitments. By clarifying the explanatory level at which cosmo- logical concepts operate, the generative–projective framework provides a unified interpretive account of inflation, dark energy and cosmic time and situates cosmology within a broader pattern shared by other areas of foundational physics. (shrink)

I argue that some important elements of the current cosmological model are 'conventionalist’ in the sense defined by Karl Popper. These elements include dark matter and dark energy; both are auxiliary hypotheses that were invoked in response to observations that falsified the standard model as it existed at the time.

This paper provides a taxonomy of cosmological arguments and givesgeneral reasons for thinking that arguments that belong to a given category do not succeed.

We present a cosmological model (RL+) that offers exact predictions for the Hubble constant, the cosmological constant, the total energy density of the universe, and a curvature that matches current observational constraints. The model predicts a cosmological constant energy density that constitutes approximately 64% of the total energy budget, in agreement with current estimates from the standard LCDM model. Furthermore, the model addresses several longstanding cosmological problems—namely, the problem of infinite initial density, the coincidence problem, and (...) the flatness problem—all with the introduction of a single temporal parameter. (shrink)

Modern cosmology has achieved extraordinary empirical success, but this success coexists with persistent foundational paradoxes. The standard model accurately fits a wide range of observations while simultaneously invoking global time, literal singularities, and an absolute origin; commitments that generate conceptual tension and remain weakly constrained by data. This paper argues that these tensions arise not from missing physics but from overcommitted interpretations. I propose a systematic reconstruction of cosmological inference that begins from a strictly minimal observational core and treats (...) coherence, rather than causality or creation, as the primary explanatory constraint. I identify irreducible observables, systematic spectral shifts, a pervasive thermal radiation field, its remarkable spectral preservation, and the growth of correlated structure, and rebuild cosmology using only what is required for these facts to be mutually consistent. Within this framework, early global mixing and later differentiation emerge as coherence-maintenance strategies, while the cosmic microwave background is understood as a protected memory of an earlier regime. The Big Bang is thereby reinterpreted not as a physical origin but as a boundary of reconstructability marking the non-extendibility of the current coherence regime. The ΛCDM model is recovered as a powerful effective compression within this broader framework, but its surplus metaphysical commitments are shown to be optional rather than forced. The resulting coherence-first cosmology is empirically conservative and conceptually lean. It makes falsifiable claims concerning spectral purity, late-time interaction histories, and the limits of extrapolation, thereby remaining firmly within the domain of scientific theory rather than metaphysical speculation. (shrink)

Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism – in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra-cosmic ultimate being – theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe. This view re-emerges in recent metaphysics through what I call cosmological arguments from parsimony (CAPs) and cosmological arguments from relations (CARs). According to CAPs, monism is more ontologically parsimonious than pluralism because it posits only one fundamental entity. According to CARs, (...) the single fundamental object in monism serves as a required metaphysical explanans for how things in the universe can form certain relations with each other. I argue that this longstanding tradition of arguments spanning Neoplatonism, early and late modern philosophy, analytic philosophy, and even some Eastern traditions fails: monistic frameworks largely fail to reduce the universe’s ontological complexity as alleged, and the remaining ones fail to show any theoretical advantage over pluralism for related reasons. Drawing on the broader materialist tradition, the article also offers a positive case for several theoretical merits of pluralism and ends with a takeaway concerning how best to inquire into the universe’s unity. (shrink)

This document formulates the ontological and epistemological foundations of the Unified Information-Density Theory (UIDT). Rather than postulating spacetime as a primordial arena, UIDT investigates the hypothesis that a single real scalar field, the vacuum information density S(x), may serve as a fundamental geometric degree of freedom. The present edition is deliberately conservative: it is the product of a line-by-line honesty audit that downgraded several earlier claims and that treats the framework as a falsification-first research programme rather than a completed theory. (...) -/- The framework rests upon four explicit axioms and addresses four areas: (I) a quantum field-theoretic foundation in which the pure-SU(3) Yang-Mills spectral gap Delta = 1.710 +/- 0.015 GeV [B] functions as a necessary stress test of internal consistency rather than as a sufficient foundation, and in which the gap value is lattice-compatible under an explicitly recorded evidence-class reclassification (section 1.2); (II) cosmological calibration to DESI, JWST, and ACT data, capped at [C] and never presented as a resolution of the H0 or S8 tensions; (III) laboratory-relevant predictions, including a candidate scalar resonance at mS = 1.705 +/- 0.015 GeV [D] and a Casimir-scale anomaly at lambda = 0.66 nm [D]; and (IV) a structural mapping between the vacuum scalar and effective refractive-index profiles, retained as an interpretive analogy. -/- The calibrated invariant gamma = 16.339 is classified throughout as [A-] (calibrated, never derived from renormalisation-group first principles); any future derivation must satisfy an explicit anti-target-leakage criterion. The naive scalar-gradient route to non-trivial gauge curvature, A = dS => F = dA = d2S = 0, is recorded as a clean [A] negative result. The central open problem, the GSM-Origin Gap, is preserved as unsolved. -/- Every quantitative claim carries an explicit evidence classification (A through E), every prediction is accompanied by a falsification criterion, every known limitation (L1-L12) is disclosed, and speculative observer-phenomenology material is retained strictly as bounded Category [E] research-programme content within an interpretive stratum. The ontological position is a form of dynamic Ontic Structural Realism in which sufficiently constrained mathematical structure is taken to constitute, rather than merely describe, physical reality, subject always to the demarcation that interpretation never substitutes for empirical or formal closure. (shrink)

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has not only brought technological innovation but also unprecedented civilization-level risks. This paper introduces the concept of “Cosmological Safety”, arguing that the root of AI risk is not merely a technical problem but a deep-seated disorder in human civilization, encompassing value systems, institutional structures, and worldviews. From an interdisciplinary perspective that integrates philosophy, physics, complex systems theory, and AI risk analysis, the study constructs an analytical framework centered on the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology, (...) embedding cosmic formation, the evolution of life, civilization development, and the emergence of intelligence into a continuous evolutionary chain. -/- Through systematic analysis, the paper reveals cognitive biases inherent in contemporary AI risk paradigms, including techno-centrism, growth-oriented competition, and functionalist ethics, and proposes civilization-level governance strategies based on cosmological understanding. It further demonstrates the relevance of Laozi’s philosophy within the context of modern systems theory, introducing three foundational principles—Ontological Humility, Negative Feedback First, and Natural Boundaries—to guide AI alignment and civilization safety. On this basis, the study constructs a multi-level alignment framework, decentralized intelligence networks, and civilization-scale risk mitigation mechanisms. Four categories of potential civilization failure are analyzed: technological hegemony collapse, digital totalitarian evolution, value-hollowing civilizations, and human-machine co-extinction. Finally, the paper proposes the evolutionary trajectory of future intelligent civilization: from tool-oriented AI to Adaptive Wisdom (AW) embedded within natural cycles, with humans transitioning from designers to stewards of civilization. -/- This work culminates in a declaration for rebuilding civilization under the lens of cosmic-scale rationality, providing a systematic theoretical and practical reference for AI governance, civilization safety, and long-term sustainable development. -/- . (shrink)

This paper proposes that time is an operator with a finite update rate, not a fixed background parameter. The temporal operator (T1) emerged through a single foundational event and propagated across the underlying pattern (T0) over a three-day stabilization window. The ratio of T0's extent to that duration defines a new primitive: the speed of time. -/- Treating time as a variable update-rate field unifies several persistent cosmological anomalies — black-hole time dilation, flat galaxy rotation curves, and the apparent (...) acceleration of cosmic expansion — without invoking dark matter or dark energy. The model is compatible with general relativity and quantum mechanics, and generates five concrete, testable predictions. (shrink)

This paper takes inspiration from the Silk Road crossroads of Dunhuang and proposes an “opportunistic trade”of concepts between distant intellectual traditions, in particular Mahāyāna Buddhism and contemporary dark matter cosmology. Dark matter presents philosophy of science with a tension: it is fundamental to the standard model of cosmology, yet directly unobservable, known only through its gravitational manifestations accessed by an extensive infrastructure of telescopes and computational models. The paper argues that the Mahāyāna Buddhist doctrines of emptiness (空) and dependent origination (...) (緣起), which entered sinified Buddhism through Nāgārjuna’s Madhyamaka (Middle Way, 中觀宗) and Heart Sūtra (Prajñāpāramitāhrdaya, 般若波羅蜜多心經), allow us to characterize dark matter as a scientific postulate that gathers a stabilized pattern of manifestations without reifying any substrate beneath. After that, the paper presents the thesis of New Confucian philosopher Xiong Shili (熊十力) on non-duality of reality and function (體用不二), which emerges from his critical and syncretic re-reading of Mahāyāna Buddhism, in order to mobilise the Buddhist concept of 不二 to dissolve the residual philosophical anxiety about dark matter’s ontological standing. The paper advertises a philosophical stance towards dark matter that is (a) comfortable with ambiguity, (b) resistant to premature ontological commitment, and (c) attuned to the mediated character of contemporary cosmological knowledge. The motivation behind this operation is to demonstrate that philosophical positions originating in or inspired by Mahāyāna Buddhism constitute a conceptual toolkit of equal theoretical importance for the philosophy of cosmology alongside the pathways grounded in the Western canon. (shrink)

This paper advances a cosmopsychist interpretation of humanity’s position within an evolving universe. Drawing from cosmology, phenomenology, and process philosophy, it argues that consciousness is not an accidental by-product of matter but a graded feature expressed through increasing structural complexity. Human beings are interpreted not as the center of existence nor as meaningless accidents, but as reflective participants in an ongoing cosmological process. The article distinguishes technological expansion from ontological inquiry and suggests that the future of human evolution depends (...) upon a transformation of awareness rather than mere scientific accumulation. By situating ethics within ontology, it proposes that peace, freedom, equality, and intellectual responsibility emerge from recognizing humanity’s relational and developmental position within a larger conscious totality. (shrink)

This paper provides the first explicit bridge between the structural persistence law of La Profílée and a standard cosmological fine-tuning result. Building on Paper 104, it shows that in ΛCDM cosmology the cosmological constant Λ functions as a Level-1 parameter that constrains K, the cross-scale integration condition. The standard upper bound on Λ is a persistence bound. This paper additionally develops a quantitative toy model for the K-Erosion Hierarchy — the structurally determined order in which cosmological scales (...) lose K-admissibility as Λ increases. The model derives K_eff(ℓ, Λ) from linear structure formation theory and shows that Λ_K(ℓ) ∝ ℓ^(−2.22): larger scales lose K-admissibility at smaller Λ values. This is a falsifiable, scale-specific prediction absent from standard Fine-Tuning accounts. (shrink)

Cognitional Mechanics Cosmology (CM Cosmology) reconstructs time, space, redshift, and large-scale structure from the unique minimal algebra M₃(ℂ). Rather than postulating a Big Bang singularity, inflation, dark matter particles, or dark energy fields, the framework derives all major cosmological observables from a closed set of algebraic axioms with zero free parameters. -/- Building on this foundation, we introduce Permanent Operational Cosmology (Japanese: Koukyuu Enzan Uchu-ron) as the cosmological realization of CM. It describes a universe governed not by an (...) initial creation event or a future thermal end, but by continuous non-commutative operations whose algebraic structure inherently excludes both absolute beginning and termination. -/- Within this framework, time emerges as the ordering of non-commutative operations, three-dimensional space arises as a necessary projection of the algebra, and cosmological redshift follows from a uniform temporal modulation without requiring spatial expansion. The cosmological constant vanishes as a structural identity, cosmic flatness follows from the algebra's natural metric, and the derived CMB temperature and matter/energy density fractions match observational data to within one percent. -/- Furthermore, information is conserved as the invariant rank of the density matrix, resolving the black-hole information paradox by showing it stems from treating dynamical boundary conditions as static horizons. Apparent cosmological tensions arise when the continuous operational dynamics of the underlying algebra are interpreted through static, snapshot-like models. -/- Permanent Operational Cosmology provides a mathematically complete, zero-parameter alternative to the standard ΛCDM model, grounded in a single algebraic structure that unifies cosmic evolution, thermodynamics, and quantum information. -/- Published on April 7, 2026 DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19448254. (shrink)

The following three evidential arguments are sometimes advanced in favor of a multiverse hypothesis: The fine-tuning argument contends that evidential support for that hypothesis comes from the fact that nature's fundamental parameters are fine-tuned for life. The anthropic argument posits that our mere existence provides such evidence. Finally, the cosmological argument proposes that such evidence arises merely from the fact that the universe exists. The central claim of this chapter is that the success of the fine-tuning and anthropic arguments (...) hinges upon the success of the cosmological argument. After establishing this dependency thesis, I explore several strategies for resisting the cosmological argument. I have two goals. First, I aim to demonstrate the central role of the cosmological argument in these related debates. Second, I plan to sketch out some promising directions for future research regarding its viability. (shrink)

Time appears to ow for observers, yet general relativity describes a static block uni-verse. A spacetime diusivity eld ϵ(s) with dimensions [L2T−1] governs causal information resolution. Two Lorentz-invariant postulatesds/dt = c and dϵ/ds = cpromote ϵˆ and mˆ to canonical conjugates obeying [ϵˆ,mˆ ] = iℏ, yielding the Cosmological Uncertainty Principle: ∆ϵ·∆m ≥ k·ℏ/2. Information-Pixel Amplication extends this principle through spacetime’s granular structure: each Planck-length coherence cell contributes independent quantum ac-tion, yielding ∆ϵ·∆m ≥ (ℏ/2)·(D/ℓcoh) for distance D. Using an (...) area-diusion parameter, the framework further achieves an operational scale unication, deriving both Planck time (tP = ℓP /c) and Hubble time (tH = 1/H0) across 60 orders of magnitude. The theory gener-ates testable predictions: a cosmological horizon temperature TCUP = π ·TdS ≈ 9×10−30 K, and quantitative reproduction of Milky Way dark matter uncertainties (∼ 4 × 1041 kg) us-ing FRB-motivated diusivity parameters. Temporal ow emerges as information transport constraints, unifying quantum mechanics and cosmology while providing falsiable tests of spacetime’s quantum structure through precision astronomical measurements. (shrink)

The cosmological constant problem remains one of the deepest paradoxes in modern physics: quantum field theory predicts a vacuum energy density (~10^120) times larger than the value inferred from cosmological observations. This hierarchy mismatch, together with debates over anthropic reasoning and dynamical dark energy, highlights persistent inconsistencies across scales and observer frames. This paper applies the Universal Principle of Collapse (UPC) as a cross‑scale audit axiom, linking quantum, relativistic, and cosmological domains through recognition and collapse. UPC dissolves (...) the paradox not by introducing new physics but by exposing linguistic and conceptual inconsistencies: the assumption of a static vacuum energy, the neglect of observer‑dependent recognition in cosmological inference, and the concealment of recognition as a relational construct. By enforcing recognition consistency across scales, UPC reframes dark energy as a context-dependent entity rather than a paradoxical constant, continuing the dissolution of foundational contradictions established in prior UPC work (Escagedo Gutierrez, 2025a–d). The paper unfolds through Background, UPC Framework, Audit, Resolution, and Philosophical Framing, guiding the reader step by step to clarity. December 2025. (shrink)

This paper proposes the Lao–Yang Genesis Cosmology, a holistic cosmological framework that reinterprets Laozi’s foundational propositions—“Man follows Earth, Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Dao, the Dao follows Nature” and “Dao gives birth to One; One gives birth to Two; Two gives birth to Three; Three gives birth to all things”—through the lens of modern astronomy, Earth science, and ecological philosophy. By integrating Daoist metaphysics with contemporary cosmology, the study constructs a nested generative chain: the Dao manifested as the (...) Milky Way; the Milky Way giving rise to the Solar System (“Dao gives birth to One”); the Solar System giving rise to Earth (“One gives birth to Two”); Earth giving rise to the Moon (“Two gives birth to Three”); and the Sun–Earth–Moon tri-system generating water, air, light, life, and ultimately human civilization (“Three gives birth to all things”). Through systematic analysis, the paper demonstrates that these classical Daoist formulations are not merely moral or metaphysical metaphors but correspond to a coherent cosmological order grounded in natural law, self-organization, and systemic interdependence. At the human scale, “Man follows Earth” is interpreted as an ecological and civilizational imperative rooted in planetary limits, cultural continuity, and sustainable development. At the cosmic scale, “Dao follows Nature” is articulated as the spontaneous, non-intervening operation of universal laws governing galaxies, stars, planets, and life. The Lao–Yang Genesis Cosmology thus offers a unified philosophical–scientific model that reconnects humanity with its cosmic origins, reframes ecological crises as consequences of deviating from natural order, and advances a vision of sustainable civilization grounded in harmony between humanity, Earth, and the cosmos. By rebuilding the bridge between ancient Daoist wisdom and modern cosmology, this work seeks to provide a non-theistic, non-anthropocentric foundation for understanding the origin of life, the structure of the universe, and humanity’s ethical responsibility within it. (shrink)

This paper is a simple reminder for cosmology enthusiasts of the bright line separating the laws of physics from science fiction. It provides some tools: rules, guidelines and a definition of space useful for examining cosmology science claims and concepts. It explains the stringent thresholds for an idea before it can accurately be called a scientific theory or hypothesis; and who bears the burden of proof for a theory. These simple tools provide solid ground so you may more easily examine (...) cosmology claims to help make up your own mind which side of the science/science fiction line a specific claim belongs on. (shrink)

This paper centers on the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology, integrating Laozi philosophy with modern science to systematically explore cosmic generation, the origin of life, ecological governance, and the holistic laws of civilizational development. The book follows the cosmic evolution logic of “Dao produces One, One produces Two, Two produce Three, Three produce All Things,” constructing an integrated philosophical-scientific framework from the galaxy to the solar system, Earth, and Moon, extending to human civilization. Additionally, it analyzes Sun Shuao’s political practices and the (...) concept of Wu Wei governance, proposing a model of natural civilization governance and elaborating humanity’s cosmic mission and future civilization development. This work provides a novel holistic perspective and theoretical reference for philosophy, science, and civilization studies. (shrink)

This chapter addresses philosophical questions raised in contemporary work on cosmology. It provides an overview of the Standard Model for cosmology and argues that its deficiency in addressing theories regarding the very early universe can be resolved by introducing a dynamical phase of evolution that eliminates the need for a special initial state. The chapter also discusses recent hypotheses about dark matter and energy, issues that it relates to philosophical debates about underdetermination.

This work develops Cosmological Continuity Presentism (CCP) as a generative ontology of relativistic spacetime that preserves the established local dynamics of General Relativity while advancing a distinct account of temporal structure, causal becoming, and ontological succession. CCP is fundamentally a continuous framework whose core claim is not that relativity is false, but that the ontology of a static block universe is not forced by relativistic formalism. Instead, CCP interprets relativistic spacetime as the emergent representation of an ongoing process of (...) lawful generation in which reality continuously becomes what it next is through uninterrupted causal-temporal evolution. -/- At the deepest ontological level, CCP posits a primitive pre-geometric generative ordering parameter, σ, which labels lawful stages in the production of reality. σ is not fundamentally a scalar field defined on a pre-existing spacetime manifold. Rather, the familiar σ-field description applies only within the emergent geometric regime, where spacetime admits a smooth Lorentzian description and σ can be represented as a constrained scalar field whose level sets define admissible present hypersurfaces. -/- CCP preserves the Einstein field equations, Lorentz invariance, diffeomorphism invariance, and the standard ADM initial-value structure of General Relativity. The existence of admissible temporal orderings follows from the causal structure of globally hyperbolic spacetimes through results due to Hawking–King–McCarthy, Malament, Geroch, and Bernal–Sánchez. CCP interprets σ as a physically calibrated member of the class of smooth Cauchy temporal functions guaranteed by these results, with calibration supplied by the cosmological matter congruence and by a variational constraint derived from the Einstein–matter system. -/- Within the emergent geometric regime, the effective σ field introduces no new propagating gravitational degrees of freedom and does not modify the Einstein equations. Its gradient structure is constrained through the Euler–Lagrange condition -/- ∇μσ ∇μσ = −f(Tμν), -/- where the norm of the gradient is determined by local matter-energy content. Accordingly, σ functions as a constrained scalar whose physical significance derives from the existing Einstein–matter structure rather than from an independent dynamical sector. -/- At any stage of cosmic evolution, CCP assigns ontological existence only to the present physical state represented by the advancing present boundary Σσ. Future states remain ungenerated. Earlier states do not persist as independently existing regions of spacetime; however, this non-persistence concerns the earlier state's specific organization rather than the disappearance of physical continuity itself. Matter, energy, fields, causal influences, and physical consequences continue through lawful transformation, while some consequences remain organized as records accessible within later states. -/- CCP therefore distinguishes between (i) ontological persistence, which is limited to present physical structures and their encoded causal records, and (ii) determinate truth about past events, which may extend beyond what remains physically encoded or recoverable. Present records function as evidential traces and partial physical persistence rather than as the total grounding of all truths about the past. -/- The generated domain M(σ) is a formal representation of generated history and causal ancestry rather than an ontological accumulation of simultaneously existing spacetime regions. Reality itself is understood as a continuously evolving causal-temporal process whose mathematical representation employs foliations and generated domains without implying the co-existence of past, present, and future. -/- CCP treats causal ordering as a structural feature of the generated domain and maintains causal continuity independently of whether underlying physical processes are deterministic or stochastic. The framework distinguishes between uncaused outcomes and unconditioned existence: an outcome may lack a determining prior cause while still occurring within a lawful physical framework and a pre-existing generated domain. -/- CCP remains fully compatible with standard relativistic quantum field theory within its experimentally tested domain. At the quantum-gravity level, causal-set approaches provide one possible compatible realization of CCP’s generative-ordering principles because they treat causal order as primitive and spacetime geometry as emergent. CCP, however, remains fundamentally committed to continuous generative flow rather than to discrete ontology. -/- CCP is best understood as an interpretive extension of relativistic cosmology and a phenomenologically motivated completion of relativistic spacetime ontology. It preserves established local physics while providing a mathematically developed account of temporal becoming, causal continuity, and the generation of present reality, together with potentially testable cosmological consequences associated with the gradient structure of the effective σ field. (shrink)

Based on neuroscientific facts and cosmological considerations, the hypothesis is presented here that just as the guided complexity of matter and energy in the unique space-time of each human brain generates the host’s Soul, the infinite complexity of the Multiverse, a more likely embodiment of the allness of existence than a single Universe, must also have a Soul. It is appreciated that this hypothesized Soul of Multiverse, imagined as majestically as obscurely in some ancient religious texts, is currently outside (...) of the realm of science. Yet, this paper argues that the intellectual and technological advances of the 21st century created favorable conditions for starting to address the nature of Soul across human and cosmic scales with the approach of cosmological neuroscience. This interdisciplinary field aims to examine the nervous system in the context of cosmic laws, including the laws that made life on Earth possible and let it evolve to generate the nervous system and its increasingly more sophisticated forms culminating into the appearance of human Soul and its noospheric expansion with purpose and potential to transcend. A human-specific prefrontal cortical supercircuitry termed Self-Ken, with domains Conscience, Mission, Will and Identity, is proposed for the neural center of the individual human Soul. The design of a globally applicable Noospheric Creativity Monitor is introduced to initiate the examination of Soul at its individual and global levels. Possible experimental astronomical and broadened cosmological studies are mentioned to evaluate the discussed hypothesis. (shrink)

Matter–antimatter asymmetry is ordinarily treated as a dynamical problem of baryogenesis: which microphysical mechanisms generate a persistent baryonic surplus from an initially symmetric or nearly symmetric early universe. This paper does not propose a new baryogenesis mechanism, alter Standard-Model dynamics, or derive the baryon-to-photon ratio. It proves a narrower structural result. Once a cosmological history is treated as a coherent construction of persistent material identity, the admissibility kernel is instantiated automatically: reference, standing, admissibility, and irreversibility become non-optional constraints on (...) same-domain continuation. Within a fixed cosmological reconstruction category, exact matter–antimatter exchangeability is shown to be non-transportable through irreversible continuation whenever the correlations required to recover the exchange involution are no longer admissibly available on the late material-reference scope. Hidden reindexing, post-hoc symmetry restoration, carrier laundering, recoverability repair, and scope transport collapse into bookkeeping, inadmissible selector import, or larger-domain revision. The resulting universal obstruction is represented by a nonvanishing exchangeability-totalization obstruction object. The conclusion is not that standard baryogenesis programs are replaced, but that they are structurally reinterpreted as possible dynamical realizations of a more basic reconstruction requirement: persistent cosmological identity admits, up to bookkeeping-equivalent redescription, a unique admissible reconstruction class only after exact global exchangeability has failed as a standing-preserving transport invariant. (shrink)

This paper interprets cosmological structure formation through the admissibility framework of the Paton System. Rather than viewing galaxies, clusters, and large-scale cosmic structures purely as the result of gravitational amplification of density fluctuations, the admissibility interpretation recognises that only configurations compatible with governing physical constraints are structurally permitted to persist. Cosmological evolution therefore occurs within an admissible configuration manifold defined by gravitational dynamics, conservation laws, and expansion conditions. Structure formation emerges as the progressive occupation of stable admissible regions (...) within this manifold. This interpretation clarifies why large-scale structures display consistent statistical distributions across the observable universe and links cosmological growth with other domains governed by constraint-defined admissible state spaces. (shrink)

The following article will examine three argumentative strategies to address a recent topic of debate in the philosophy of religion known as the “Gap Problem.” It aims to study the “Stage II” of cosmological arguments, where the goal is to establish the theistic properties or attributes that identify the first cause or necessary being with the concept of God. The unique contribution of this study lies in the formalized and systematic presentation of the various solutions proposed by authors in (...) the philosophical field, synthesizing their central ideas and presenting them in the form of arguments. (shrink)

This paper employs the Lao-Yang Genesis Cosmology (LYGC) as its analytical framework to conduct a deep critique of the systematic errors made by Yang Lihua, professor in the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, in his interpretation of pre-Qin philosophy. The target of critique is not Yang Lihua's personal scholarly cultivation — his textual mastery in the domain of Confucian Neo-Confucianism is beyond doubt — but rather the fundamental coordinate system upon which his methodology operates: a closed cognitive system that (...) takes Confucian moral psychology (xinxinglun) as its highest arbiter, a system within which the vertical dimension of cosmology has never appeared. The paper proceeds through seven levels of argumentation: First, tracing the structural implantation of Yang Lihua's academic genealogy, revealing how Confucian-centrism completed an unconscious coordinate installation during his formative period, causing all subsequent judgments to unfold within the internal rules of the Confucian coordinate system. Second, critiquing his textual-chronological dissolution of the Laozi's cosmology and his political-technological demotion of wuwei (non-action). Third, exposing his ideological operation of using the label 'more like religion' to eliminate Mohism as a cosmological competitor. Fourth, deconstructing his continuation of the two-thousand-year slander against Yang Zhu's 'self-for-self.' Fifth, analyzing the fundamental cosmological limits of his 'li-monism.' Sixth, applying the Sage Entropy formula (dS/dt = ρᵣ · DAF / ΔCCF) to provide a quantitative diagnosis of his paradigm. Seventh, interrogating whether a self-satisfied professor of philosophy at Peking University is ignorant or shameless, and clarifying his danger — more dangerous than the crude denier is the sophisticated concealer. The core proposition of this paper is: Yang Lihua's methodological deficiency does not lie in peripheral details but in the fact that he has never truly understood the cosmological dimension represented by the proposition 'The Milky Way reflected in the Han River is the Dao.' He has studied Laozi for decades, yet has never looked up to see the Milky Way that Laozi saw from the banks of the Han River. A person who has never looked up to see the Milky Way, however profound his textual mastery, is utterly blind at the cosmological level. This is not a personal attack on Yang Lihua; it is a fundamental critique of a paradigm. When this paradigm occupies the professorial chair of the Department of Philosophy at Peking University, when it mass-replicates itself to tens of thousands of students annually through classrooms and publications, its harm to the cosmological inheritance of Chinese civilization is far more profound than any external critic. (shrink)

This paper proposes a self-contained cosmological framework derived from the claim that absolute nothingness cannot exist, either conceptually or ontologically. Once “nothingness” is defined, the act of specification introduces distinctions, reference structures, and representational capacity—thereby collapsing into existence. From this, we derive the axiom that a universe cannot reach a state of zero structural density. -/- Building on this principle, we introduce a minimal dynamical model in which a scalar quantity, structural density σ(t), represents the amount of distinguishable structure (...) per unit volume. The model predicts that: (1) the universe cannot fully collapse into a structureless state, (2) a minimum structural floor σ_min > 0 prevents terminal heat death, and (3) cosmological re-expansion (“bounce”) emerges when structural density reaches this lower bound. -/- We show that this model smoothly connects to the Friedmann equations by interpreting structural density as contributing to an effective energy density ρ_s(t). Under conditions ρ_s → ρ_min, the dynamical equations imply a reversal from contraction to expansion, providing a classical mechanism for cyclic cosmology without invoking quantum tunneling or singular initial conditions. -/- This structural cosmology framework supports a unified explanation of expansion, collapse, and re-expansion, grounded in the impossibility of nothingness and the continuity of distinguishable structure. (shrink)

This paper completes the Structural Cosmology program by deriving concrete observational predictions from the principle that absolute nothingness is impossible. Using the structural floor σ_min as a dynamical constraint, the model predicts: (1) low-ℓ suppression in the CMB from pre-bounce homogenization, (2) a smooth drift in the dark-energy equation of state w(z), and (3) an ultra–low-frequency gravitational background from pre-bounce contraction. These observational traces allow the impossibility of nothingness to be tested directly against cosmological data, making Structural Cosmology a (...) fully predictive framework. (shrink)

The radial acceleration relation (RAR) of disc galaxies is governed by a single acceleration scale, a0 ≃ 1.20 × 10−10 m s−2 , whose origin has long been an open question. We report a two-input closed-form relation for this scale and a corresponding closed-form RAR law. From the two late-time cosmological parameters (H0, ΩΛ) alone we obtain a0 = cH0 2π Ω 3/8 Λ = 1.20055 × 10−10 m s−2 at Planck-2018 central values, with no galaxy-level fit parameter; the (...) bare Hubble-temperature scale cH0/(2π) undershoots the empirical value by about 13%, and the Ω−3/8 Λ factor supplies the missing normalisation. Built on this scale, the closed-form law g 2 obs = g 2 bar + a0 gbar 1 + q 3 2 qgbar a0  exph − e gbar 2πΩ 3/8 Λ a0 i has the correct deep-MOND and Newtonian limits and, with no parameter fitted to galaxy kinematics, matches the SPARC RAR at a level comparable to the standard empirical interpolation under the same fixed baryonic model. On the full SPARC Q=1 sample (93 galaxies, N = 2060 radial points, no outlier rejection) it is comparable to the McGaugh interpolation (χ 2/N = 44.84 versus 45.48 under a common relative-scoring prescription, the difference interpreted descriptively rather than as a calibrated likelihood significance), while a one-parameter free-a0 fit returns a free 0 = 1.1999×10−10 m s−2 , in 0.05% agreement with the cosmological prediction. We present these as empirical, falsifiable closed-form relations; the microscopic mechanism behind the Ω−3/8 Λ , p 3/2, and e factors is developed in a companion manuscript. (shrink)

This paper is a philosophical essay that completes the conceptual arc of Structural Cosmology I–III. Starting from the claim that absolute nothingness is impossible, it develops an intuitive model of the universe as an “uneditable bitmap”: cosmic collapse, near-complete homogenization, and re-expansion are interpreted as internal rearrangements of structure rather than movements into an external void. -/- To make this precise without formal mathematics, the paper extends Einstein’s equivalence principle to the dimension of scale. If all physical processes deform together (...) when the universe globally shrinks or expands, then no internal observer can detect the change. Under this “scale equivalence principle,” the traditional idea of heat death becomes not a final state but the turning point of a self-contained, cyclic, and fractal breathing of the cosmos. -/- The essay also revisits the arrow of time. Because memory, entropy increase, and causal ordering are all internally defined, it is possible—at least in principle—that the universe is running in the opposite direction to its own cosmic breathing, while remaining observationally indistinguishable. -/- Rather than presenting a closed physical theory, the paper offers a structural and philosophical synthesis connecting cosmology, phenomenology, ethics, and myth. Its goal is to keep the discussion open, preserving a deliberate margin of uncertainty within the universe’s ongoing attempt to understand itself. (shrink)

Macroscopic irreversible processes emerge from fundamental physical laws of reversible character. The source of the local irreversibility seems to be not in the laws themselves but in the initial and boundary conditions of the equations that represent the laws. In this work we propose that the screening of currents by black hole event horizons determines, locally, a preferred direction for the flux of electromagnetic energy. We study the growth of black hole event horizons due to the cosmological expansion and (...) accretion of cosmic microwave background radiation, for different cosmological models. We propose generalized McVittie co-moving metrics and integrate the rate of accretion of cosmic microwave background radiation onto a supermassive black hole over cosmic time. We find that for flat, open, and closed Friedmann cosmological models, the ratio of the total area of the black hole event horizons with respect to the area of a radial co-moving space-like hypersurface always increases. Since accretion of cosmic radiation sets an absolute lower limit to the total matter accreted by black holes, this implies that the causal past and future are not mirror symmetric for any spacetime event. The asymmetry causes a net Poynting flux in the global future direction; the latter is in turn related to the ever increasing thermodynamic entropy. Thus, we expose a connection between four different “time arrows”: cosmological, electromagnetic, gravitational, and thermodynamic. (shrink)

This paper presents a speculative framework that reinterprets the thermodynamic “heat death” of a universe as a state of fundamental quantum identity, representing the final endpoint of phenomenological decay. which subsequently serves as the origin of a new cosmological epoch. I advance the philosophical conjecture that the erasure of all physical distinctions corresponds to a singular state of universal identicality. This state is formally proposed to be a degenerate, pre-geometric quantum ground state, |Ψ₀⟩. I provide a mathematical formulation capturing (...) this idea and propose that the apparent paradox of genesis from stasis is resolved by a two-stage physical process: First, the cessation of all classical dynamics marks the dissolution of emergent spacetime and gravity. Second, the underlying pre-geometric quantum substrate, now exposed, undergoes a spontaneous symmetry breaking driven by its intrinsic quantum uncertainties. This breaking precipitates the violent re-emergence of spacetime, geometry, and energy—a new Big Bang. This synthesis reframes cosmic cyclicity, positioning the arrow of time within a deeper quantum-gravitational narrative. (shrink)

The Critical-Density Reconstruction Hypothesis proposes a localized composite-threshold framework for cosmological renewal. Rather than requiring irreversible heat-death termination or synchronized whole-universe recollapse, the framework examines whether sufficiently extreme local gravitational concentration could permit a renewal-like transition within a continuing cosmological background. In this formulation, the late-time minimum-density background describes the large-scale cosmological setting, while reconstruction is triggered only when a bounded region crosses a severe composite threshold involving density, curvature, confinement, and trapped energy. The hypothesis does not (...) claim observational confirmation, a completed microphysical mechanism, a solved entropy account, or a derivation from quantum gravity. Its purpose is narrower: to define a coherent conceptual category for local threshold-driven renewal, distinguish it from global bounce and cyclic models, identify necessary conditions of viability, and clarify the physical problems any future theory of such reconstruction would need to solve. This framework is intended as a foundations-level conceptual analysis, providing a disciplined starting point for later work on localized cosmological transitions. (shrink)

This is the fifth and final paper of the La Profilée Domain Series. Following the Domain Principle (D012) and the physical, biological, organizational, and personal foundations of Domains I–IV, it specifies the bridge assumptions connecting LP structural variables to cosmological observables and derives the LP structural account of cosmological persistence architectures. Cosmological systems are LP-admissible systems at the largest physical scale. Galaxies, galaxy clusters, and large-scale structure are persistent cosmological configurations that maintain their structural identity against (...) cosmological transformation load. The universe as a whole undergoes a trajectory through cosmological LP phase space — from an extremely low-entropy initial state deep in the cosmological Coherence Zone toward progressive structural entropy accumulation at the largest accessible scale. The cosmological bridge assumptions connect: Frame (F) to large-scale structural invariants, conserved topological properties, and the defining characteristics of cosmological configurations; Module (M) to degrees of freedom available for cosmological evolution and phase transitions; Coupling (K) to gravitational and field-theoretic interaction structures that maintain coherent large-scale organization; Transformation load (R) to expansion rate, dark energy density, entropy production, and perturbation spectrum. Six structural results are derived. Result I — Cosmological Coherence Zone: stable large-scale structures are Coherence Zone interiors at cosmological scale. Result II — Structure Formation as Persistence: galaxy and cluster formation can be interpreted as LP-admissible cosmological configurations emerging through structural selection (D006) from near-uniform initial conditions. Result III — Thermodynamic Arrow as Structural Arrow: cosmological entropy increase is the largest-scale instantiation of structural entropy production (D009). Result IV — Fine-Tuning as Admissibility Condition: physical constants can be interpreted as cosmological admissibility constraints — boundary conditions that allow persistent cosmological structures to form. Result V — Accelerated Expansion as Increasing Load: dark energy-driven accelerated expansion can be interpreted as monotonically increasing cosmological transformation load. Result VI — Heat Death as Cosmological Persistence Boundary: the thermodynamic heat death is the cosmological instantiation of maximum structural entropy — S_ent_cosm → 1, complete restoration foreclosure at cosmological scale. Domain V completes the Domain Series. Cosmological persistence architectures are not the most dramatic application of LP — they are its most encompassing: the structural conditions of persistence at the scale of the universe itself. (shrink)

This paper presents a unified framework in two parts. On the basis of established general relativity and FLRW cosmology, Part I establishes that the cosmic-average rate of proper time dτ/dt increases monotonically as the universe expands and the mean gravitational potential weakens. This kinematic result is supported by observational evidence that time ran approximately five times more slowly in the early universe than today. Part I also challenges the assumption of universal temporal passage — the residual Newtonian presumption that time (...) flows uniformly everywhere — and introduces an exploratory conjecture that the subjective acceleration of time perception in aging humans may carry a weak cosmological component. Part II provides a causal mechanism for the results of Part I: the Big Bang is proposed to have been a phase transition in which a primordial temporal field of high energy density began condensing into the gravitational and matter fields of the observable universe. The residual uncondensed energy density of this field is identified with the cosmological constant Λ, offering a natural resolution of the cosmological constant problem that requires no fine-tuning: Λ is small because condensation is nearly complete after 13.8 billion years. Three testable predictions follow: a deviation of the dark energy equation of state from w = −1, a secular decrease in effective Λ, and the absence of a vacuum decay catastrophe. Taken together, the two parts constitute a single argument: time is not the backdrop of physics but its primary physical substrate. (shrink)

I present a theoretical framework proposing that the proper rate of time, averaged across the observable universe, increases monotonically as a function of cosmic expansion. Building on established general relativistic principles — specifically gravitational time dilation and the relationship between mass density and spacetime curvature — I derive that as the universe expands and the mean gravitational potential weakens, the cosmic average rate of proper time dτ/dt must increase at every moment. This is supported by recent observational evidence that time (...) ran approximately five times slower in the early universe than at present. I further introduce an exploratory conjecture — not yet admissible as physics evidence — that the well-documented subjective acceleration of time perception in aging humans may carry a weak, indirect signal of this cosmological effect, superimposed on and vastly dominated by neurological and psychological mechanisms. I outline the mathematical framework, challenge the assumption of universal passage of time that persists in both physics and philosophy, discuss the gap between established and conjectural claims, identify conditions for falsifiability, and propose directions for future interdisciplinary investigation. (shrink)

This paper presents a unified framework in two parts. On the basis of established general relativity and FLRW cosmology, Part I establishes that the physical process rate R(t) — the frequency of standard physical oscillators as measured by comoving observers — decreases monotonically as the universe expands, and that the proper time interval per physical event ?(t) increases monotonically with the scale factor. This kinematic result is supported by observational evidence that physical processes ran approximately five times faster in the (...) early universe than today. Part I also challenges the assumption of universal temporal passage — the residual Newtonian presumption that time flows uniformly everywhere — and argues that the block universe's temporal dimension carries a built-in gradient. Part II provides a causal mechanism: the Big Bang is proposed to have been a phase transition in which a primordial temporal field of high energy density began condensing into the gravitational and matter fields of the observable universe. The residual uncondensed energy density of this field is identified with the cosmological constant Λ, offering a natural resolution of the cosmological constant problem requiring no fine-tuning. Four testable predictions follow: deviation of the dark energy equation of state from w = −1 (consistent with current DESI data), a secular decrease in effective Λ, the absence of a vacuum decay catastrophe, and a residual deviation from the joint GR–quantum mechanical prediction in quantum coherence experiments conducted in gravitational potentials. The framework also carries a natural connection to the thermodynamic arrow of time: the pre-condensation temporal field represents a state of minimum gravitational entropy, and the condensation direction defines the arrow of time without independent postulation. Taken together, the two parts constitute a single argument: time is not the backdrop of physics but its primary physical substrate. (shrink)

This article examines the status of time in the ANAM(X) model. It substantiates the thesis that time has a derivative character within this corpus and arises as a derivative form of distinguishing its own course, since distinction, in order to be retained, reproducible, and comparable, already co-actualizes trace, fixation, the order of manifestation, the possibility of repeated passage, and the condition of further self-specification. On this basis, it is shown that temporality in the model opens at two interrelated levels: as (...) an inner possibility already within the initial act of distinction, and as an explicit form of ordered configurational passage after the unfolding of the four minimal roles and the six inevitabilities of the system. Time is defined as a multilayer systemic-regime organization through which distinction renders distinguishable its own passage, its own transitions, and its own stable relations, and then receives their late metric inscription. The article then compares this approach with contemporary directions in physics and complex systems theory: the problem of time in quantum gravity, relational models of time, thermodynamic conceptions of temporality, theories of the transition from the quantum to the classical, and studies of multiscale dynamics. It is concluded that the articulation of time as a derivative multilayer organization strengthens the explanatory power of the ANAM(X) corpus, since it creates grounds for a coordinated consideration of the quantum, classical, cosmological, and complex-systems levels of description. The distinction between quantum entanglement as a correlationally linked co-manifestation and local signal transfer as a late metrically readable process is also specified separately, and a working hypothesis of an earlier regime of connectedness is formulated. Thus, the article establishes the conceptually derivable status of time in the ANAM(X) model and provides a basis for subsequent special physico-mathematical formalization. (shrink)

As persons we are irreducibly unique and essentially relational. In many contexts individual uniqueness has been accentuated at the expense of communal relationality. Our age has been marked by the loss of deep and meaningful relations to one another, and still more dramatically to the earth and its living creatures. The cosmological dimension of human personhood, that is, has been largely obscured. This chapter argues that our age has been marked increasingly by anesthetizing, alienating, and anonymizing tendencies. It proposes (...) three commensurate responses: aestheticization, or embodied philosophical knowing that remains faithful to the earth; anacarnation, or willful return to the wonders of embodied life, purged of romantic sentimentality; and attestation, or speaking up on behalf of the haecceitas or thisness of living creatures systematically instrumentalized for profit and pleasure. Together these responses help us to regain touch with animality by embracing the earth that hosts us, thus becoming more gracious guests, and to become more fully human by becoming better hosts to the multitude of earth's creatures, whose lives hang in the balance. (shrink)

The framework develops a formal methodology for evaluating when claims of cosmological bookkeeping closure are epistemically justified under horizon-bounded observational access. Working within a timeless four-dimensional manifold representation, it distinguishes a global spacetime arena from an observer-relative accounting domain and partitions the recoverable state information into observable, inferred, and inventory-inaccessible sectors. It introduces an explicit bookkeeping admissibility condition showing that complete accounting closure is not automatically warranted when embedded observers possess only bounded causal access to interior state information. The (...) framework thereby establishes a general bookkeeping non-closure principle that identifies when evidential entitlement fails, even in otherwise well-behaved cosmological models. Rather than proposing a new cosmological theory or modifying general relativity, the framework addresses a foundational question concerning the relationship between causal accessibility, inference, and epistemic justification. It develops formal sector definitions, a minimal bookkeeping relation, admissibility criteria for cosmological accounting procedures, and a conceptual discriminator matrix that distinguishes the framework from approaches in spacetime ontology, operationalism, horizon thermodynamics, and holography. The aim is to provide a precise formal language for discussing the epistemic limits of cosmological inventory reconstruction under observer-bounded causal access, thereby clarifying when claims of cosmological bookkeeping closure are methodologically warranted. (shrink)

The paper develops a structural account of the Big Bang as a coherence–orientation transition within a generative field. It argues that a cosmological domain emerges when accumulated variation becomes irreducible, forcing the system to generate orientation, dimensionality, and stable coherence constraints. Light is treated as the first dimensional operator, completing the geometry required for causal structure and the stabilization of matter. Subsequent cosmological development—large‑scale structure, chemical complexity, biological organization, and cognitive emergence—is presented as later expressions of the same (...) generative architecture acting on new substrates. The result is a unified framework in which cosmology, life, mind, and meaning arise through a single sequence of coherence‑preserving transitions rather than through independent explanatory domains. (shrink)

The book discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory chapter investigates features essential to cosmological arguments. Traditionally, cosmological arguments are distinguished by their appeal to change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. But none of these is in fact essential to the formulation of cosmological arguments. Chapters 1-3 present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Chapter 4 (...) offers an entirely new approach to the cosmological argument - the approach of theistic modal realism. The proper explananda of cosmological arguments on this approach is not change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. The proper explananda is the totality of metaphysical reality - all actualia and all possibilia. The result is the most compelling and least objectionable version of the cosmological argument. (shrink)

This essay presents a speculative interpretative hypothesis regarding the role of the cosmological neutrino flux as a substrate for quantum correlations. Through an analytical method of elimination, the neutrino emerges as a singular element capable of maintaining the informative cohesion of the cosmos. This independent research suggests that neutrinos may act within a system of continuous interaction, data storage, and transmission, providing a response to the "spooky" gaps in modern physics and consolidating the vision of a permanently interconnected universe.

This paper argues the impossibility of neutrality and shows that the support for the broken cosmological principle lies in scientists' lack of understanding of preconditions. Each has their own preconditions, and for a valid description, the clear specification of preconditions is important. In a discussion, there is no need to deliberately describe the assertions of positions that lack validity. The cosmological principle is denied by the breakdown of the theory of relativity. Even setting that aside, from the singularity (...) of the Earth, the dark matter theory, and observations, the cosmological theory cannot be supported. Even so, that it is supported is considered to be due to scientists' misperception that they themselves are neutral. It is suggested that the cause is a lack of scientific thinking and logical thinking, and it is considered to be a major hindrance to the development of science and cosmology. (shrink)

This article presents a 20‑step cosmological ladder that traces the ascent of the ente from physical gradients to the Final Unity. The ladder reveals a structured sequence of emergences — osmotic pressure, ion pumping, memory, reproduction, multicellularity, collective behavior, communication, coordinated movement, specialization, sensory expansion, higher cognition, complex social structures, language, self‑awareness, collective self‑awareness, conscious evolution, cosmic consciousness, multidimensional perception, universal integration, and finally the Final Unity. I argue that humanity now stands at Step 16: Conscious Evolution. At this (...) threshold, genetic inheritance — shaped by tribal selection pressures — becomes maladaptive at planetary scale. The ente must therefore transcend biological programming, assume responsibility for its own development, and align itself with the higher emergences that follow. The cosmological ladder provides a unified metaphysical framework for understanding this transition and clarifies the ethical imperative facing any civilization that reaches conscious evolution. (shrink)

We prove that the Zitterbewegung of a free Dirac fermion — the rapid trembling at angular frequency ω = 2mc²/ℏ identified by Schrödinger in 1930 — is the physical signature of oscillation across the cosmological time-reversal boundary. In a T-symmetric cosmology the negative-energy solutions of the Dirac equation, identified via the Feynman–Stueckelberg correspondence as the particle propagating on the opposite side of the t = 0 boundary, interfere with the positive-energy component to produce the observed trembling. Five structural consequences (...) are proven as theorems: both fermion helicities are observed because the oscillation samples both sides within every Compton cycle; the 4π periodicity of spin-½ arises from the two-sheeted topology; the Majorana condition is forced by boundary geometry; the neutrino is the most delocalised Standard Model fermion; and the massless lightest neutrino m_{ν₁} = 0 is predicted by Bott periodicity of the Clifford algebra tower, falsifiable by KATRIN and Euclid. The Weyl vector Casimir of Gr(2,4) gives ⟨ρ_G, ρ_G⟩ = 5 exactly. We conjecture Ω_DM/Ω_b = 5, consistent with Planck 2018 (5.36 ± 0.10). The shadow symmetry Δ ↔ 2 − Δ encodes the same oscillation in spectral space, linking the Zitterbewegung to celestial holography. (shrink)

This paper explores the ultimate fate of the universe from the per- spective of the Tenson particle, a hypothetical entity responsible for fluctuations that generate both spacetime and temporal flow. We ar- gue that the universe, born from an initial fluctuation, will end by returning to the same state of fluctuation, thereby closing a cosmolog- ical cycle that can be interpreted as eternal recurrence. Observational support is drawn from redshift, cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies, gravitational wave anomalies, and the effects (...) of dark en- ergy. Finally, philosophical and speculative implications such as warp navigation are considered. (shrink)