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  "abstract": "This paper is part of the SRDP (Self-Replication of Dark Particles) programme. It is a conceptual note with no new calculations. Our founding assumption is \"nothing comes from nothing\": something has always existed, and that something is the monomedium — a homogeneous continuous medium not composed of particles. What is eternal is an equilibrium, unchanging on average (like a gas: molecules move, pressure stays constant), not literally. The monomedium era is an eternal equilibrium of a vacuum-like medium; the simplest version is a stable \"parent\" vacuum, not our present one (ours is probably metastable). The first-fluctuation hypothesis: a rare fluctuation, the first for our world rather than for the monomedium, turned a region of the medium into a Gliner \"heavy vacuum\" (p = −&rho;), and inflation began; self-replication starts with it. Of three routes to a beginning (from equilibrium, evolution, \"nothing\"), a literally unchanging state with a single event is excluded; evolution without a beginning is excluded in the models considered; creation \"from nothing\" is not refuted but not chosen, on principle. In equilibrium \"why not earlier\" loses its meaning; the measure problem (\"Boltzmann brains\") remains open. Continuations on an equal footing: A — our world is born closed (&Omega;_k < 0); B — many bubble universes, ours open or practically flat (&Omega;_k ≥ 0). The fixed point \"production = dilution\" of version 2 is refuted. Status: the monomedium era and the first-fluctuation hypothesis — not established; the literal form of the earlier hypothesis — refuted.",
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      "name": "Sergei Moskvin",
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  "published": "2026-10-26",
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  "title": "The First-Fluctuation Hypothesis: The Monomedium Era, the Onset of the Universe's Expansion and the Origin of Matter",
  "title_text": "The First-Fluctuation Hypothesis: The Monomedium Era, the Onset of the Universe's Expansion and the Origin of Matter",
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