Agreed . . . pondering the origins of the Universe can be very intellectually stimulating.
I haven’t been able to reconcile a statistical fluke creating the Big Bang vs. dark matter, dark energy, an uneveness (actually mapped) in the Cosmic Background radiation, and certain more philosophical objections that I haven’t been able to get around . . . yet the idea explains other things very well.
Yet I haven’t been able to move forward on it in years.
Leave it to an autistic man to get hung up in numbers.