The field equations of pregeometric theories of gravity are derived and analyzed, both without and with matter. After the spontaneous symmetry breaking that reduces the gauge symmetry of these theories à la Yang-Mills, a metric structure for spacetime emerges and the field equations recover both the Einstein and the Cartan field equations for gravity. A first exact solution of the pregeometric field equations is also presented. This solution can be considered as a pregeometric de Sitter universe and provides a possible resolution for the problem of the big bang singularity.

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