Unfolding Reality: A Conceptual Framework for the Emergence of Spacetime from a Pre-Classical Domain

This paper proposes a conceptual framework in which classical spacetime is not fundamental but emerges from a deeper, timeless, pre-geometric domain. I refer to these two layers as Ubigger, a pre-classical domain without space, time, separability, or numerical structure, and Uclassical, the emergent layer in which classical physics operates. The transition between them occurs through an unfolding process that generates spatial extension, temporal ordering, dimensional structure, and causal relations. Within this framework, quantum superposition and entanglement reflect pre-classical unity rather than nonlocal influence, while measurement corresponds to unfolding into definite classical configurations. The same unfolding mechanism provides intuitive reinterpretations of several longstanding conceptual challenges, including the Big Bang, cosmic expansion, gravitational curvature, the measurement problem, as well as the arrow of time and the universe’s low-entropy origin.