Hello Glenn.

Although I think you'd not agree completely with what I state in my last article, I think you'll find it interesting, as it resonates completely with your materialistic, eternal and infinite view of the universe:

https://quantumwormholes.medium.com/understanding-the-planck-constant-d1fbfa9b1a04

There I show how the instant but light-like interactions that define the internal structure and the external environment of any phenomenon in the universe, together with the constraints the universal constants represent for these interactions to emerge lead to a steady-state model of the cosmos, with its structure and behavior dictated by the kinetic and potential energy densities within and around every material entity or process that the unfolding interactions define at each place and time just by interconnecting events in spacetime while fulfilling the light speed ratio and other constraints that ultimately converge to the fundamental uncertainty the Planck constant represents within the observer's reference frame.