Before the Bang

Before the Breach, Emergence (1D), and the Unfolding of the Allen Orbital Lattice (2D)

Scope. Mainstream cosmology: the Big Bang is rapid expansion of space itself, with an early phase of inflation and reheating. In Pattern Field Theory (PFT), we focus on the regime before the 2D→3D breach: carriers already exist — the π-particle (1D) and the Allen Orbital Lattice (AOL, 2D) — but there is no volumetric (3D) channel, so light has no 3D expression yet. Only pre-emergence (pre-π) lacks carriers entirely. “Cold” here means non-thermal: temperature wasn’t applicable because no degrees of freedom existed to hold it.

Executive Summary

  • Mainstream baseline: The early universe underwent accelerated expansion (inflation) and later reheating into a hot, dense plasma. The “bang” is the metric expanding, not a bomb in empty space.
  • PFT addition: Before the 2D→3D breach, carriers already exist — the first π-closure (1D) and the AOL network (2D) — but there is no 3D channel for radiance. The first carrier arises at π-closure, installing the First Memory \((\Delta \ell,\Delta \tau)\) with \(c=\Delta \ell/\Delta \tau\).
  • Carriers → fabric: Six neighbors around the seed form Ring-1 (AOL). With carriers and coordination, the fabric can stretch; inflation is read as rapid coordination and metric growth. 3D radiance appears only after the breach adds volume.

What “carriers” means (plain language)

In PFT, carriers (the first is the π-particle) are units that hold a stable boundary, keep a tick, and pass an update to neighbors. Many carriers linked together form a carrier network (the AOL) that can route and synchronize. After the 2D→3D breach, this same network provides the transport layer, anchor points, and local axes that constrain and route radiative packets (light) in 3D.

1) What Physics Means by the Big Bang

Standard cosmology models a hot, dense, expanding early universe. Many versions include an initial inflationary phase (accelerated expansion from a high-energy vacuum-like state), then reheating that populates radiation and particles. Observables such as near-flat geometry and a nearly scale-invariant perturbation spectrum support this picture.

Not an explosion into an outside: the metric itself expands.

2) Before the Breach (carriers present, no 3D light)

Before the 2D→3D breach we already have carriers: first the π-particle (a single boundary-holding, time-keeping unit), then the AOL (a 2D network of carriers). They coordinate and route in 2D, but there is no volumetric channel yet, so light cannot express in 3D. Only pre-emergence (pre-π) lacks carriers entirely. “Cold” here means non-thermal: temperature isn’t applicable without degrees of freedom to store or equilibrate heat.

  • Pre-π (no carriers): Isotropy selects the circle when a closure finally stabilizes (isoperimetric closure).
  • Emergence (π, 1D): First carrier writes the First Memory \(c=\Delta \ell/\Delta \tau\) (proper time begins locally).
  • AOL (2D): Carriers synchronize and route; radiance awaits the 2D→3D breach.

3) Emergence (First Dimension): the π-Closure

A successful pre-closure stabilizes as the first circle — the π-particle — installing the First Memory, a minimal step and tick \((\Delta \ell,\Delta \tau)\) whose ratio \(c=\Delta \ell/\Delta \tau\) is the universal propagation bound. One carrier is not yet a network; volumetric expression is still absent.

4) The Second Dimension: Unfolding the AOL (Ring-1)

The second dimension begins when six π-closures nucleate around the seed, forming Ring-1 of the Allen Orbital Lattice (AOL) — the first transport-capable neighborhood. Growth proceeds with a front speed bounded by the First Memory: in shorthand, π-particles “reproduce at \(c\).”

Allen Orbital Lattice — first three rings with hex cell outlines
Carrier genesis: first three rings of the AOL. Labels show tick = hex distance from the seed (front speed ≈ one hop per tick).

5) Synchronization & Group Time

Each π-particle carries proper time; rings phase-lock into group time. As rings couple to rings, a lattice-level coordinated time emerges. Increased enclosure density or routing load strains locking — appearing as slower group time (PFT’s framing of time dilation).

Ring-1 phase locking: six-node synchronization over time
Ring-1 phase locking: six neighbors synchronize into a stable ring time; transient load produces brief phase slips before re-lock.

6) Lift Toward 3D and Inflation

As AOL rings propagate (Ring-2, Ring-3…), coordination and drive cross a threshold and closures extrude — lifting toward volumetric structure. In this lens, inflation is a phase of rapid coordination and metric growth once a carrier fabric exists; reheating then yields the familiar hot, particle-filled universe.

7) How light travels “in straight lines” on an orbital lattice

After the breach, radiative packets (light) are routed across the carrier fabric. Each hop has a fixed tick (First Memory) and a small turn cost. The packet obeys a lattice version of Fermat’s principle: it follows the least-delay, least-turn route. On a nearly isotropic lattice, repeating that choice produces macroscopic paths that are straight in the continuum limit. Inhomogeneity (strain/density/clock gradients) renormalizes hop cost and bends the path — refraction and lensing in PFT terms.

In short: discrete geodesics on the lattice → straight lines on average; gradients curve them.

8) Why light appears only after the breach

  • No 3D channel before breach: 1D/2D carriers route and synchronize but cannot express volumetric radiance.
  • After the breach: The carrier network becomes the transport layer and provides anchors/axes for light; when drive outruns relaxation, routing mode-converts into electromagnetic packets (light).

9) If the AOL “blew up,” what lattice do we see today?

Not a single global hex grid. The AOL is the boot lattice: it writes the First Memory and synchronizes early routing. After the 2D→3D breach and rapid stretch, a universal hex tiling does not survive. What persists is: (i) the rule set (First Memory, symmetries), (ii) local carrier domains that re-lock, and (iii) re-expressions of AOL-favored geometry wherever energetically preferred.

  • Vacuum today: effectively isotropic carrier fabric — no crystalline grid. Light follows least-delay routes; averaged, they’re straight unless gradients bend them.
  • Matter lattices: hex/FCC/BCC etc. are local condensates where the same symmetry/least-strain rules minimize energy — echoes, not the primordial sheet.
  • Cosmic structure: filaments/voids reflect routing/minimization over long times, not a frozen hex template.

10) What This Adds (and How to Check It)

  • Origin of \(c\): \(c\) is the First Memory at π-closure, not a later bolt-on.
  • Time’s start: Proper time begins at emergence; shared time is synchronization across carriers.
  • Minimal-part echoes (lab-scale): In ultrafast fracture/discharge/ignition, earliest geometry biases to ring/arc (π-first), then jumps to tubular/plume at a threshold (extrusion).
  • Clock–symmetry link: More symmetric closures make more stable clocks (mirroring best physical resonators).

11) FAQ (brief)

Was everything “cold”? In the precise sense: non-thermal. Temperature wasn’t applicable before volumetric degrees of freedom.

Does PFT contradict inflation? No. PFT supplies the pre-volumetric hinge (π → AOL). Inflation then acts on a fabric that exists and coordinates.

Where does light come from? Post-breach routing (FCC) that mode-converts into EM packets when driven beyond relaxation.

Note: PFT sections are conjectural but falsifiable structure layered atop the mainstream cosmological baseline.