Astrobios Hypothesis – Paper I: A Pre-Quantum Substrate Model for Cosmological Structure Formation

Abstract Modern cosmology has achieved remarkable success in describing the large-scale evolution of the Universe through the ΛCDM framework. Nevertheless, several fundamental questions remain unresolved, including the physical origin of dark energy, the nature of dark matter, the mechanism preceding the earliest observable stage of cosmic evolution, and the relationship between quantum phenomena and cosmological structure formation. These unresolved issues motivate the exploration of alternative theoretical frameworks capable of providing a unified conceptual description of the early Universe. This paper introduces the first component of the Astrobios Hypothesis, a theoretical model proposing that the observable Universe emerged from a Pre-Quantum Substrate, an initial state that precedes conventional spacetime and quantum fields. Within this framework, the Universe evolves through a sequence of transformations beginning with a neutral primordial configuration, followed by the emergence of two complementary transformation phases, denoted by α and β, whose dynamic interaction gives rise to the Energy–Space Formation Function (ESFF). Rather than treating dark energy and dark matter as independent unexplained phenomena, the model proposes that they represent different manifestations of the same underlying cosmological transformation process. A preliminary mathematical representation is introduced to describe the proposed transformation dynamics without claiming a complete fundamental theory. The mathematical framework serves as a formal language for expressing the internal consistency of the hypothesis and establishes a foundation for future theoretical refinement and quantitative analysis. The Astrobios framework further proposes a unified conceptual interpretation linking the emergence of dark energy, dark matter, ordinary matter, and neutrino-related phenomena to successive stages of substrate evolution. While these interpretations remain hypothetical, they generate a coherent set of relationships that differ from the assumptions of the standard cosmological model. Finally, the paper outlines several observationally testable predictions concerning early-Universe evolution, large-scale structure formation, dark-sector behavior, and possible signatures in future cosmological observations. These predictions provide potential avenues through which the proposed framework may be evaluated, refined, or falsified by future theoretical developments and experimental evidence.