https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/...tal-wrong/
KEY POINTS: Our quest for the most fundamental thing in the Universe has led us to the indivisible elementary quanta of nature that compose everything we know and directly interact with. Yet this bottom-up approach ignores two very important aspects of reality that possess enormous importance: boundary conditions and top-down conditions that govern the cosmos. In our quest for the fundamental components of reality, we only ever look at the smallest scales. Yet these larger-scale aspects to reality might be just as important... (MORE - details)
KEY POINTS: Our quest for the most fundamental thing in the Universe has led us to the indivisible elementary quanta of nature that compose everything we know and directly interact with. Yet this bottom-up approach ignores two very important aspects of reality that possess enormous importance: boundary conditions and top-down conditions that govern the cosmos. In our quest for the fundamental components of reality, we only ever look at the smallest scales. Yet these larger-scale aspects to reality might be just as important... (MORE - details)