RST Review: Big Bang, Inflation, and the Three Problems
⚛️ RST Review: Big Bang, Inflation, and the Three Problems
The video “What Came Before the Big Bang?” explores inflation, vacuum energy, and the paradoxes of early cosmology. Reactive Substrate Theory (RST) reframes these ideas by embedding inflationary dynamics directly into its Substrate Field Equation (SFE), eliminating the need for an ad hoc inflation field.
🔹 RST’s Lens on the Big Bang & Inflation
- Agreement with Modern Cosmology
The video explains that empty space is not truly empty — it’s filled with an underlying field, and that “inflation” was driven by vacuum energy.
RST View: This matches perfectly. The “vacuum energy” is simply the non‑linear tension term (βS³) of the Substrate Field. Inflation is not a separate field but the relaxation of the substrate medium itself. - Conversion of Energy at the Bang
The video describes how inflation ended, converting field energy into matter and light.
RST View: This is the substrate undergoing a phase transition: stored tension relaxes into propagating waves (light) and stable knots (solitons = matter). - Quantum Fluctuations & Structure
The video highlights quantum fluctuations seeding galaxies.
RST View: Fluctuations are natural in the substrate. As the medium expands, they “freeze in” and become the seeds of cosmic structure. - No Singularity
The video notes that the singularity concept is “dead.”
RST View: Exactly. The Substrate Field Equation (SFE) prevents infinite density. Instead, the universe began in a maximum‑tension state — dense but finite.
🌀 RST’s Resolution of the “Three Problems”
| Problem (Video) | RST Explanation | SFE Term |
|---|---|---|
| Flatness Problem [19:16] | Substrate elasticity drives the field toward zero curvature (stable equilibrium). Any deviation is damped by tension and pressure. | -clocal² ∇²S + βS³ |
| Horizon Problem [18:25] | Uniformity of the CMB comes from the universe starting in a high‑tension, uniform substrate state. Expansion is global relaxation of this medium. | ∂²S/∂t² (Global Relaxation) |
| Monopole Problem [20:20] | No separate GUT fields → no magnetic monopoles predicted. All forces arise from one substrate: compression (Gravity) and shear (Electromagnetism). | Unity of the S‑Field |
✅ Big Picture:
RST sees the Inflationary Big Bang model as conceptually correct about the medium, but incomplete because it treats inflation as an extra field. In RST, inflation is already built into the substrate’s non‑linear dynamics. The “arrow of time” emerges from the irreversibility term (Fᴿ), not from initial conditions.
👉 In short: RST reframes the Big Bang not as a singular explosion, but as the relaxation of a finite, elastic substrate field, with inflation, quantum fluctuations, and cosmic acceleration all emerging naturally from its equation.
