Why the universe is made of matter

In the standard account, the Big Bang made matter and antimatter in equal amounts. When the two meet, they annihilate into light. A universe with equal amounts should have ended up as nothing but light: no atoms, no stars, no readers.

Yet the universe we observe is made almost entirely of matter. Physics calls this the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and it remains unexplained within a single explosive origin.

RSI starts from a different premise. The universe was not a one-time explosion of opposing substances. It is a toroidal field that has always been circulating, and it makes matter continuously through turbulence where its exhale meets its inhale.

That flow is not symmetric. It has a preferred orientation: a warm pole and a cool pole, an outward current and an inward one, a Still Core and a rolling rim. The knots that form there are born in pairs, a twist and its mirror image, but the flow does not treat the two alike. They are the field's turbulence settling into the most stable shapes available, and stability is decided by resonance. Knots whose geometry meshes with the field's 137-harmonic survive, and because the flow has a handedness, mirror-image knots mesh slightly less often. Many unzip through their own internal dissonance. Those that remain meet their partners and annihilate into light, leaving the small surplus of matter we see.

What remains, RSI argues, is "the difference between resonance and dissonance, made permanent." The narrative calls the Eternal Consonance a resonant filter, like the body of a guitar that amplifies some notes and dampens others.