Constant Time Theory (CTT)
The standard cosmological story describes the Big Bang as the moment when the universe—and time itself—burst into existence from nothing. This view captures the dramatic expansion of the early universe but raises profound paradoxes:
How can an event occur before time exists?
What mechanism “starts” time?
What could it mean for something to happen in a state where duration does not yet apply?
If time did not exist before the Big Bang, then no process, no change, no causation—and therefore no “beginning”—could occur. The idea of time emerging from the Big Bang is conceptually elegant, but logically incoherent.
CTT resolves these paradoxes by shifting the foundation: time is not created by the universe; the universe is created by time. The temporal field is eternal, and the Big Bang marks not the beginning of existence but a transformation within a timeless, ever-renewing field.
A Thought Exercise: How Could the Big Bang Happen Without Time?
If we imagine time beginning at the Big Bang, we encounter an immediate contradiction:
For an event to happen, there must be a “before” and “after.”
For something to change state—from nothing to something—time must already be in operation.
Without time, nothing can begin, transform, cause, or occur.
Thus, the notion that “time began at the Big Bang” collapses under its own logic. An event cannot be the origin of the very condition required for events to be possible.
In CTT, this is resolved: Time does not begin. Time renews.
The Big Bang is not an event at the boundary of non-time. It is a change in the behaviour of the temporal field, unfolding within time’s eternal presence.
The Big Bang as a Phase Transition
If the temporal field is fundamental, then the Big Bang becomes a phase transition rather than a genesis.
At this transition:
Θ_E (renewal) and Θ_S (structure) entered a new balance,
energy condensed into matter,
symmetry broke,
structure crystallised into patterns,
and our region of the cosmos took on its observable form.
Nothing was not created from nothing. Rather, the temporal field reorganised itself into a new mode of expression.
The Big Bang was a change in the state of reality, not the start of reality. No Edge, No Beginning, No Before
In CTT:
Time is eternal.
Renewal is continuous.
The universe has no spatial boundary or temporal origin.
The cosmos is not expanding into a pre-existing void; space itself is generated by renewal.
There is no “before the Big Bang” because the Big Bang is not the universe’s first moment.
What began was our region’s pattern, not existence itself.
Just as a glacier may calve a new iceberg without creating ice, the Big Bang produced our cosmic environment without creating time.
Why the Big Bang Looks Like a Beginning
The early universe was dense, hot, and rapidly evolving. These conditions left strong imprints:
the cosmic microwave background,
primordial element ratios,
large-scale cosmic homogeneity.
These signatures make the Big Bang appear to be a beginning because they reflect a dramatic transformation—one whose effects dominate all earlier traces.
But in CTT, the reason we see a beginning is not that the universe actually has one, but because:
earlier patterns were erased in the transition,
and no persistent patterns survived from the pre-transition state.
We see only what endured.
A More Coherent Cosmological Picture
By treating time as the eternal field from which the universe emerges, CTT resolves the paradoxes inherent in creation-from-nothing cosmology:
No contradiction of “time before time.”
No need for a metaphysical starter.
No universe arising ex nihilo.
No tension between causation and genesis.
No singular beginning of existence.
Instead, the Big Bang marks the moment when:
renewal entered a new regime,
structure crystallised into durable patterns,
and the universe as we know it emerged from the temporal field.
The universe did not begin. It changed.
The Universe as an Ongoing Event
Time is eternal, but the universe is not static. The cosmos is an ongoing event—a dynamic interplay of renewal and structure that evolves without ever escaping the present.
The Big Bang is one chapter in this unfolding reality, not the first page. CTT therefore offers a cosmology in which:
the universe is infinite,
the present is singular,
renewal is constant,
and creation is continuous.
The Big Bang was not the birth of time, but rather a transition in a localised area of space.