I Cosmology Without Origin: 5 The Big Bang as Construal Logic

In conventional cosmology, the Big Bang is the temporal origin of everything—the singular moment from which space, time, matter, and energy erupted. From a relational perspective, however, this interpretation collapses. The Big Bang is not an event in time, but a perspectival anchor, a cut through the field of potentials that allows our system—the one we inhabit—to articulate itself.

Actualisation, Not Genesis

The Big Bang is an instance of actualisation, not creation. It is the first point from which certain relational potentials become intelligible to a given system. Its “early universe” is not matter expanding into emptiness, but a structured set of potentials made coherent through our construal.

Logic of Construal

Understanding the Big Bang as construal logic shifts our focus:

• The singularity is not an absolute point but a narrative cut through relational structure.

• Expansion is not a physical growth but a progression of distinctions actualised within a relational network.

• Cosmic history is a story of patterns of intelligibility, not a timeline of material events.

Implications

• Physics becomes a regime of construal, not the foundation of existence.

• The universe’s intelligibility emerges from how potentials are differentiated, not from what exists prior to or outside relation.

• The Big Bang is a tool for thought, a conceptual anchor, not a temporal beginning.

By reframing the Big Bang as a logic of perspective, we dissolve the final remnants of origin thinking. The cosmos is no longer “born”; it is made intelligible through the cuts we apply to relational potential.