While the Big Bang model relies on a thermodynamic, energy-dominated singularity with expanding metrics (often under the assumptions of homogeneity and isotropy), the Blink Universe proposes that proto-spacetime can emerge from nonlinear informational resonance, without requiring an infinite density or a universal expansion. The universe does not begin with a "bang," but with a "blink"---a highly localized informational impulse that resonates and organizes surrounding substrate into coherent structures.
Key distinctions from standard cosmology include:
Locality vs Universality: The Big Bang is a global phenomenon, whereas the Blink model is initiated locally, allowing for modular or patch-based universe formation.
Information-Centric vs Energy-Centric Genesis: Instead of energy density driving dynamics, we propose that information pulses (e.g., encoded in phase, amplitude, or spin) interact nonlinearly with the medium, giving rise to spatial and temporal structures.
Emergence of Geometry: The metric, curvature, and causal structure arise as effective outcomes from excitation patterns, drawing analogy from soliton physics, topological defects, and collective field theory models.
Sudden Resonance Rather than Gradual Inflation: In place of slow-roll inflation, the Blink Universe relies on impulsive nonlinear triggering that leads to immediate geometric consequences---akin to the resonant response of a constrained nonlinear lattice.
The implications of this model are both philosophical and practical:
It opens a framework for experimental analog cosmology, where miniature universe-like behaviors can be generated in laboratory systems with tailored initial conditions.
It shifts the narrative of cosmic origin toward a bottom-up, self-organized, and potentially testable process grounded in the physics of condensed matter and quantum information.
It provides a new lens to explore topological quantum field dynamics, suggesting that the laws governing our observable universe may arise not from arbitrary initial conditions, but from inherent pattern-forming behaviors of nonlinear information propagation.
In this context, a "blink" represents more than a metaphor---it is a physical excitation regime that interacts with its medium to trigger an emergent domain of order, resonance, and geometry. The blink is both the cause and the code: a seed of order in a substrate of quantum chaos.
