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EcchiOli t1_jb15di4 wrote

Others have a lot more competence to answer than me, but I'll mention the existence of an elegant hypothesis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation , the eternal inflation.

A TL;DR would be the "what if" the cosmic inflation, after the big bang, wasn't properly identical in every direction and, well, while areas "cooled off" most others remained subjected to inflation for a while longer, etc, leading to a weird multiverse or perhaps oddly patchwork-based idea of a universe or multiverse. Our universe being one of the areas in which inflation ended up before the rest, even though, most likely, the largest part of the matter and energy from the big bang is still in its inflation phase; we'd be like shards off, with a headstart.

And in such a context, the answer to your question would be a weird "no".

It may be scientifically-based, but it's perhaps less provable than a science-fiction novel, so it's to be taken with a grain of salt, but, eh, it's still an original take on the answer to give you, hehe, I always found it fascinating that such notions will be possible to imagine. It doesn't need to be true to be awesome.

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