I agree, but net zero value does not necessarily imply a static condition.
IMO, the causal event that started the dynamic chronology was a dynamic event of some sort.
My personal intuition suggests an apriori timeless dimensionless condition of infinite nothing that somehow collapsed unto itself.
IOW this collapse created a dynamic condition that translated into a singular expression of energy ( singularity) that radiated outward as the inflationary epoch.
This would be similar to a nuclear explosion that starts with a prior implosion that triggers a cascading quantum event.
If an infinite condition collapses into a singularity, could the dynamic energy trigger a mega quantum event resulting in the FTL expansion if the baby universe?
Just musing, but in the absence of any prior physical dimensional properties, the one thing that presents itself is a form of pure dynamic energy?
The notion that a God could create a universe from nothing does not satisfy the question of E = Mc2, without the origination of a dynamic action.
IMO, the concept of Cause and Effect is a logical axiom. So in the absence of physical material, there must have been pure Energy and this is the foundation of Bohmian Mechanics, which starts with a condition of pure energy wherein implications form (chaos theory) which are then chronologically expressed from the very subtle to gross expression in reality.
Note: that in Bohmian mechanics a cubic centimeter of space contains the energy of a trillion atomic bombs.
The Energy of a Trillion Atomic Bombs in Every Cubic Centimeter of Space!
Michael Talbot and David Bohm (in quotes) in Talbot’s The Holographic Universe , Chapter 2: The Cosmos as Hologram, p.51 According to our current understanding of physics, every region of space is awash with different kinds of fields composed of waves of varying lengths.
Each wave always has at least some energy. When physicists calculate the minimum amount of energy a wave can possess, they find that every cubic centimeter of empty space contains more energy than the total energy of all the matter in the known universe!
Space is not empty. It is full , a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy, it is a ripple on its surface, a comparatively small “pattern of excitation” in the midst of an unimaginably vast ocean.
“This excitation pattern is relatively autonomous and gives rise to approximately recurrent, stable and separable projections into a three-dimensional explicate order of manifestation,” states Bohm.[12] In other words, despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, the universe does not exist in and of itself, but is the stepchild of something far vaster and more ineffable. More than that, it is not even a major production of this vaster something, but is only a passing shadow, a mere hiccup in the greater scheme of things.
[12] Bohm, Wholeness, p.192
Wow!!!
Here is where the definition of the term "potential’ as “that which may become reality” becomes the causal agency?
Cosmological constant problem
In cosmology, the cosmological constant problem or vacuum catastrophe is the disagreement between the observed values of vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and theoretical large value of zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory.
Depending on the Planck energy cutoff and other factors, the discrepancy is as high as 120 orders of magnitude,[1] a state of affairs described by physicists as “the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in all of science”[1] and “the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics.”[2])
Cosmological constant problem - Wikipedia
see also: Edge.org
