Could cosmic flickering and variable stars be explained by a nested chain of reactions rather than linear “time”?

I’ve been exploring a theory I call the Infinite Reaction Theory. The basic idea is that instead of treating “time” as a fundamental backdrop, what we see in the universe is really just an endless chain of reactions. Each reaction triggers another, sometimes stabilizing, sometimes failing, sometimes reactivating like reactions nested within reactions.

This framework makes me wonder about observed phenomena like flickering stars or irregular variable stars. Instead of thinking of them as “out of sync with time,” they could simply be systems where the reaction thresholds are unstable nested reactions that fail to sustain themselves before re-igniting.

If that’s the case, then maybe the Big Bang itself wasn’t a one-time event, but just one large-scale reaction in an infinite chain. Every “origin” we push back to would still be a reaction, not a beginning.

Has anyone seen research that frames cosmology or astrophysical anomalies this way reaction-based rather than time-based? And does this map to anything in current reaction-network or non-linear systems theory?