The stability of the physical constants suggests quite strongly some sort of cosmological equilibrium. Thermodynamic equilibrium is fundamentally involved in electromagnetic and gravitational equilibrium, yet describing how these realtionships interact encounters certain limitations because of having to describe one constant in terms of the others. The inverse relationship (E=hf) between energy and (time and length), has led to the idea of the point particle, the singularity. This reduction is only partially justifiable. We consider the existence of a universal quantum background, effectively dominated by a unique quantity, the force required to contain electromagnetic energy. This singular force value (required of all black holes) is in every case equivalent, making it likely that there is really only one force acting, and that the universe as a whole is in equilibrium.