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I seem to recall a documentary that I watched a few years ago describing the multiverse, with M-theory, as being similar to slices of bread, all next to each other. (Obviously just an analogy for the lay person). And when these two universes next to each other collided, it would create a new...

What I mean by self-contained is that it is THE answer to our origins. In other words, it creates itself or exists necessarily and doesn't require further explanation outside of itself. Examples of this could be a multiverse with infinite regression, or an infinitesimal point that has no...

Hi, Are there any self contained models of the BB that are "front-runners" as explanations for the big bang? I understand that all models have some problems with them, but which models are currently taken most seriously among working cosmologists, and are there explanations of those models for...