The Big Bang as a Coherence–Orientation Event: A Structural Account of Cosmological Emergence

This paper reframes the Big Bang not as a temporal beginning but as a coherence–orientation transition inside a generative field. It argues that a cosmological domain emerges only when accumulated variation becomes irreducible, forcing the system to generate orientation, dimensionality, and stable coherence constraints. The Big Bang is presented as the structural threshold at which a previously undifferentiated relational field reorganizes into a persistent, trackable universe.The paper develops a sequence of transitions: the buildup of irreducible variation in a pre‑stabilized field; the coherence–orientation event that produces time and initiates dimensionality; the emergence of light as the first dimensional operator; the stabilization of matter and physical law; and the formation of large‑scale structure. It shows that these transitions follow a universal generative architecture that later reappears in biological, cognitive, and cultural domains.The work concludes that cosmology, life, mind, and meaning are not separate categories but successive expressions of the same structural operators—coherence, generativity, independent variation, and orientation—acting on different substrates. The Big Bang is therefore the first instance of a pattern that governs emergence across all scales.