Seven “Why” Questions About Origins
I am framing this as direct questions.
This is not a claim, only points engage dialogue.
Anyone is welcome to answer any one of them in a complete, coherent way.
1. The Compression Problem
Standard cosmology often speaks of an early universe so small and dense that ordinary physics cannot describe it, sometimes casually described as “smaller than a proton.”
Yet:
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A stellar black hole of ~10–20 solar masses has an event-horizon radius on the order of tens of kilometers.
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The total mass, energy of the observable universe is vastly greater than that.
Question:
How can the entire mass, energy content of the observable universe be physically said to have existed in a volume dramatically smaller than the event horizon that general relativity would predict for the same total mass?
Further:
What tested theory of gravity or quantum gravity describes this state without violating known limits on density, entropy, and information storage?
2. Pre-Existing, Fully Defined Laws
From the first physical moment onward, the universe behaves according to fixed, precise rules:
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specific interaction strengths
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specific particle masses
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specific symmetries
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specific conservation laws
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specific speed of light
These do not evolve over time; they are “there” from the start.
Question:
By what mechanism are these laws and constants selected and fixed before any physical process can exist to determine them?
Further:
Why are their values exactly those that allow stable atoms, long-lived stars, complex chemistry, and habitability, rather than any of the far more numerous value-sets that would allow none of these?
3. Photons Already Carry the Full Electromagnetic Structure
When radiation first streams freely, photons already exhibit:
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quantized energy E=hνE=hν
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the full electromagnetic spectrum of possible frequencies
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polarization, wave–particle duality
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well-defined interactions with charged particles
They are not primitive, half-formed objects; they have all the properties needed to:
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transport energy
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encode information
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generate color and temperature
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drive chemistry and radiation processes
Question:
Why does radiation begin its existence already possessing the full complexity described by quantum electrodynamics, rather than gradually “developing” into this structure?
Further:
What explanation is offered for the fact that the first freely moving thing in the universe is already a completely specified carrier of all future visible beauty (colors, spectra, radiance)?
4. Hydrogen, Helium, and the Element Ladder
From the early plasma, the universe settles into a composition dominated by hydrogen and helium.
Later, in stars, this leads to the full periodic table.
Question:
Why does the early universe cool into exactly the simple nuclei that:
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ignite stellar fusion, and
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naturally build up, step by step, to the elements required for organic chemistry (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc.)?
Further:
Why do nuclear binding energies, reaction pathways, and stability patterns align so precisely that a usable periodic table emerges, instead of a sterile set of unstable or non-cooperative nuclei?
5. The Specific Cosmological “Recipe”
Observations indicate a particular mix:
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~5% ordinary (baryonic) matter
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~25–30% dark matter
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~65–70% dark energy
This narrow combination allows:
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galaxy and cluster formation
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long-term structure
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neither rapid recollapse nor runaway dispersion too early
Question:
What mechanism fixes these cosmic proportions at values that permit a structured universe, rather than the far more generic outcomes of immediate collapse or featureless expansion?
Further:
Why does dark energy’s influence dominate only after structure has formed, instead of erasing it from the outset?
6. Low Entropy and High Order at the Start
For a generic, random initial condition, most possible universes:
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do not form atoms,
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do not form stars,
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or remain near-maximum entropy with no large-scale order.
Yet our universe begins in a very special, extremely low-entropy state from which large-scale structure can evolve.
Question:
What explains the initial, highly ordered, low-entropy configuration required for galaxies, stars, and planets to appear at all?
Further:
Why is the universe not only ordered but also mathematically describable and stable across billions of years?
7. The Emergence of Intelligence from Non-Intelligence
Fundamental matter and fields, as described by physics, do not possess:
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consciousness
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self-awareness
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symbolic reasoning
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moral perception
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intentionality
Yet human beings do.
Question:
How does a universe that begins with non-conscious matter and impersonal laws give rise to subjective inner experience and rational, self-reflective minds?
Further:
Why is the resulting universe so strikingly comprehensible to those minds; mathematically, logically, aesthetically, if intelligence is only a late, accidental byproduct?