Big Bangless: Recent Expansion of the Steady-State Universe

Abstract

With a steady-state condition before the emergence of life, during this period, high-temperature vacuum regions could have existed without significantly affecting the universe's overall dynamics. These high-temperature vacuum regions, pre-existing within the steady state, were primed for a phase transition triggered by the advent of agency. This transition, driven by the cumulative effect of free-will choices, leads to cosmic expansion and is intrinsically linked to the universe's trajectory towards its ultimate state.

A central concept is the interpretation of free will as analogous to infinite temperature and density, a condition under which time itself may effectively cease at the universe's end state. This final state, potentially resembling a "perfect glass" at maximal energy but zero net change, provides a novel framework for understanding entropy and the role of infinite temperature within spacetime. We explore how free will, originating from entangled naked singularities (interpreted as "states" rather than spatial locations) associated with black hole formation (specifically "toroidal ringularities" formed from collapsing nuclear pasta), might propagate into biological structures like microtubules and DNA.

The model suggests that the recent cosmic expansion is driven by the universe approaching this final state of infinite temperature, with the information loss associated with free-will actions acting as a key driver. This implies a potentially far older universe than standard cosmology suggests, where the current expansion is a relatively recent phenomenon. This also implies that the universe would appear to be much younger than it actually is, because the expansion phase would be relatively short.