THE UNIVERSE’S ORIGINS I have a pretty good handle on WHY the universe’s laws ar

THE UNIVERSE’S ORIGINS
I have a pretty good handle on WHY the universe’s laws are what they are. I have a pretty good handle on the possible options. Those are both testifiable judgments. If you asked me to gamble on which of those origins is most likely I could do so, but I have no reason to believe so other than it’s the ‘simplest’ answer given our present knowledge … a decision criterion that has failed us repeatedly in the past. 😉

Hmmm.. if you recall that I used the ‘fluke’ explanation, I suspect that I was either listing the possibilities, or I was using that example to refute someone’s undue certainty of a different theory. I can imagine the latter pretty confidently.

SPECTRUM OF POSSIBILITIES
One universe expanding and contracting, with that one universe the limit.
A collection of bubbles of universes (with the same laws) each bursting and replenishing the possibility of the next bubble universe, with the bundle of bubbles the limit.
Universes as explosions of bubbles in an otherwise ‘infinite’ universe.

PERMUTATIONS AND OPEN QUESTIONS
I can go into each of these and the permutations of each, but you can get the idea.
AFAIK each of space, energy, and time have a zero point and exist no matter what. But we can’t prove it yet.
We do not know if that zero point is a property of the bubble of our universe, or of the universe that contains our bubble of our universe. We don’t even know how to test it.
Until we grasp what I suspect are the next two levels down of the quantum background (aether, zero-point-space-time) and can determine whether space is created by the underlying medium(energy), I don’t know if we can for sure answer this question. And our lack of progress is frustrating.