there is a fundamental reality

So ? What is fundamentally "material" on photons protons and electrons other then laws of nature say so ?

What results in that which you call "materiality" is the the process of interaction between these particles on itself a "system" of functions, or in a loose sense a "program" (without a programmer) that establishes such and such possible "reactive" outcomes...

Precisely what I have been trying to explain to a bunch of no imagination suckers above is that interaction is not consciousness but rather that consciousness is the bi product of a specific complex form of mathematical interaction...

and that speaking in phenomenal "intra time" non ontological manner such that it becomes accessible to "normal" understanding...if I were to speak on ontological terms there is no interaction the thing is done and does not move pass present and future are there and make a loop...no outside no nothingness out of it...no anything else !

Do the following exercise: Imagine you have in your hand a film with all those sequenced photos...the film is there is done and yet when you peak up the projector it all comes "alive"...only then things relate and pictures come together with meaning, and not just because we can see it (meaning) or "build" it, but because we and the film we all are meant to inter relate in a meaningful functional way ! Now from there imagine that the entire Universe Multiverse or what else you want to call it is a 4 dimensional or whatever more dimensional you wish standing film...everything is done and complete and true ! There is nothing else...motion is an illusion a resulting effect of such mathematical equations, the same is valid for time and for all the other dimensions of space aside the only one needed for the equations...no background...

...now it would be a very fair question to ask me why I am suspicious of movement at all, why don´t I believe in motion ? And I can succinctly explain it by tracing it back to when I was twelve and learn something a bit more substantial on the Big Bang...my question was if space expands expands in what ? it cannot expand in nothingness since nothingness is not even space and thus wont allow any sort of movement...if it is in Multiverse the problem just goes one level up...either multiverse does n´t move or if it does its boundary's must be flexible...but how come ? flexible in what again ? nothingness constrains movement...from there I started to see what Truth was all about and why it is perfect and indeed static...well enough with it I think you get the picture hopefully...

think of it like this, nothingness is less then space less then time less then laws of nature nothingness is the place were nothing can occur or happen , no motion no matter no energy not even a possible future...a possible future would render nothingness in ontological abstract terms in a place of possibility a redundant obvious truth but it helps to picture it step by step...now none of these things can happen in such a "thing" (actually a non thing at all) so how come space expands ? That was how it all started for me... ...the problem of Being and Nothingness it is my only interest in Philosophy...all others are side affairs, specially moral questions...

if it happened before or not no one knows, there might have occurred an infinite succession of big bangs for all that we know, its called big bounce theory and its old already...I think what you are asking is why did it started when it started,and assuming you are also intrigued towards where...acceleration is nowadays explained with dark energy and dark matter as the agents responsible for the galaxy's being pulled apart in spite the force of gravity who pushes them together...

I don´t think Big bang is bluntly wrong entirely I think it just tells half of the story... besides its explaining says nothing on the nature of time and how it behaves on a deep level scale...its a phenomenological approach and I am not at all satisfied with that for lunch...