Abstract Contemporary cosmological models typically explain the emergence of the observable universe from pre-existing physical substrates such as quantum vacua, fields, or meta-structures. While successful in describing regime transitions, such approaches presuppose structured informational and energetic content and therefore do not address the origin of distinction itself but rather assume the existence of existence to explain the emergence of existence as informational differentiation. This work proposes a conceptual framework for the genesis of physical reality, in which physical reality arises from the very genesis of primordial informational differentiation rather than from prior physical entities. Nothingness is defined as the absence of all distinction and formally represented as an undifferentiated boundary condition with zero energy content and no relational structure. Genesis begins when this condition resolves into complementary alternatives through spontaneous, energy-neutral negation, introducing the first distinction and thus the first physical information. Informational antisymmetry precedes and gives rise to energetic polarity, spatial separation, and persistent structure. Physical laws emerge as invariant relations of stable antisymmetric configurations. Complementary domains remain balanced jointly in energy and information, implying that conservation at the level of primordial differentiation applies to combined energetic–informational content rather than to energy alone. Spatial extension and expansion are interpreted as geometric expressions or interpretations of maintained antisymmetric distinction. The framework yields a zero-total-energy+physical information ontology in which structure emerges without net energetic creation. Possible connections to cosmological phenomena such as large-scale expansion and unseen mass–energy, as well as the explanation for the superluminal character of entanglement, are noted as possible explanations to be further discussed (Conjecture). The model aims to provide an ontological substrate for the emergence of polarity, space, and law grounded in primordial differentiation.
Ignacio Ospino (Fri,) studied this question.