The Big Break

RSI pictures the universe as a toroid, a doughnut-shaped circuit of flowing medium. At its center lies the Still Core, a region of the Rest-State where the field holds great potential energy.

The cycle turns at what the theory calls the Big Break. RSI proposes that it marks the trough of the medium's breathing, about 13.8 billion years ago as counted by atomic clocks. That is the epoch standard cosmology calls the Big Bang, but in RSI it has no singularity and is not the beginning of everything. It is a cycle that turns.

From the trough the medium's folding began to tighten again. At the Still Core a renewed Exhale of field inversions followed. An inversion, in RSI, is a local disturbance of the resting field. As this energy moved outward it stalled into the fundamental harmonics of matter, electrons and protons, which then organized into galaxies, shaped by the global pressure gradient of the field.

Standard cosmology reads the record of this phase as an expanding universe. RSI reads it as the rising rhythm of a breathing medium. The Exhale is one half of the macro-cycle. The other half, the Inhale, returns matter to the Still Core.