Kalyan Bhuyan

A pot of boiling soup that suddenly starts cooling at a breakneck pace: that's roughly what the universe looked like a few minutes after the Big Bang. As the temperature dropped, the first nuclei began to stick together from protons and neutrons: hydrogen, helium, deuterium, and lithium.

You're inflating a balloon, but with each pump of the bulb, the rubber doesn't just stretch: it subtly changes its elasticity. Gravity works similarly in the new model: not as a rigid stage for the cosmic play, but as a living material that responds to every speck of matter.