A New Vision of the Early Universe - Second Edition: The Origin of SMBHs, Dark Energy, Fields, Forces, Particles, and How Each Evolved Naturally - Hardcoverby Robert J. Conover (Author) The current theory for the early universe centers around the Standard Model's vision of fields, forces, and particles inexplicably popping into existence within the first second of the Big Bang. That conjecture has worked for many years and has inspired an edifice of theoretical support, but it stretches credulity and leaves too many unanswered questions. What if the initial nugget of energy did not instantaneously turn