What was there before there was a "There" there?

[mshades]

We're a little closer to an answer....Analysis of microwave radiation in the vast "emptiness" of space suggests that our universe bubbled off a previous universe, and that in that moment our universe already had a set of rules. In other words, the rules of physics that we know didn't just fall into place like sevens on a One-Armed Bandit - they

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[anonymous]

my brain is in squeaky-happy mode reading things like this. did you know that masses known as "Red Dwarf Stars" will be the last thing to survive after this universe expands apart. AND they'll be extinguished before a possible great collapse of the universe into itself... perhaps to only create another new Big Bang?

I'm salivating all over my mac, i must stop.

[mshades]

No kidding - for a billion, billion, billion years, it'll just be endless darkness with the faint light of red dwarf stars and then... nothingness. Strains the imagination. Love it.