The Great Monotony

The roughly ten-billion-year period from the Big Bang until abiogenesis on Earth, during which hardly anything new came about.

The universe produced no novelty until life emerged, and later humanity. The Great Monotony demonstrates that Knowledge creation — first genetic, then explanatory — is the source of all significant change in the cosmos.

Connections

• •Ended by the emergence of Genetic Knowledge (life)
• •Further disrupted by Explanatory Knowledge (people)
• •Demonstrates the cosmic significance of Knowledge creation
• •Contradicts the Principle of Mediocrity — knowledge-creating entities are profoundly rare and significant
• •A period of cosmic Stasis — no error correction, no progress
• •Universal explainers are what ended the monotony
• •Supports The Principle of Optimism — the universe's trajectory changed when knowledge appeared