The total mass in the universe never changes. It is constantly changing in one form or another. Energy keeps changing from one state to another on a never-ending basis.
Existence is not a random effect, and it does not happen randomly. An Event Originator causes origination events. The natural laws built into our universe were written in; they were not random. Physical systems have the energy to do the work. No particular reason; it just happened as an uncaused event. A random unspecified mechanism causes an event that might not otherwise have come about, ain’t no event at all. Nothing from nothing begets nothing. The Event Originator wrote the program that caused the Big Bang. True that.
The statement energy cannot be created or destroyed only applies to a closed system. Since our universe is an open system, that statement doesn’t apply. Causality can never be random or non-existent. Every cause has an effect.
Life exists because of information (DNA). DNA is a program run by a living organism that builds structures with increasing complexity. Cells in multicellular organisms migrate and differentiate cells within these multicellular organisms. It all starts with information, which, of course, pre-exists the life form. The code dictates the result.
Our energy source has relatively low entropy. The sun’s energy gets trapped in life forms. We are heat traps and heat generators. Do not limit your knowledge to your ability to link facts. Don’t limit your understanding to what others consider logical. Don’t consider your reasoning the only valid reason and your knowledge to be the only game in town. Your ability to identify all known causes is only a start.
A singularity could have occurred from a random quantum fluctuation. Time is outside of the relativistic quantum evolution of the universe. Time controls all motion at the classic level within the spacetime metric. Quantum systems, like electron orbitals, generally deal with state spaces and probabilities rather than conventional time evolution.
Quantum mechanics regards the flow of time as universal and absolute. General relativity considers the flow of time as malleable and relative. The two aren’t at odds. Our perception only sees part of the result.
Time is a macroscopic feature of quantum thermodynamical origin, time springs from the fundamental level of physics. Time then becomes entangled at the quantum level. After that, it moves to the classical level for our perception. Everything moves on from there. Our conscious experience is driven by time.
Curved space-time doesn’t mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. The universe is made up of an interacting collection of quantum fields. There are three generations of fermionic fields, two strongly interacting quark fields, a charged and a neutral lepton field. A set of four vector bosons, a group of 8 massless vector bosons, and a scalar field on a curved spacetime background. The fermionic fields are matter, along with the bosonic energy fields. The interactions between these fields are quantized. It is all about vibrating energy.
The wave function is the basis for a law of nature that describes how particles, fields, and objects move through space and time.
