Before the Big Bang: Information, Time, and the Birth of Spacetime

This paper proposes an explanatory extension of the Neerhut Unified Informational Field Theory (NUIFT), interpreting the Big Bang not as the absolute creation of existence from nothing, but as a cosmic-scale informational phase transition. In this framework, the information that later appeared as spacetime, matter, radiation, gravity, and temporal flow already existed in a pre-geometric condition. The Big Bang is therefore treated as the transformation of pre-existing universal information into physical reality. The paper is intentionally written as a readable theoretical proposal rather than a full mathematical derivation. It introduces four conceptual formula anchors, distinguishes information from void, relates the proposal to existing work in information-theoretic physics, black-hole thermodynamics, holography, emergent gravity, and early-universe phase-transition models, and proposes ten testable consequences. Special emphasis is placed on early galaxy and early black-hole formation as a possible future test area for informational preconditioning.