don’t know why the rules emerged or why they took the forms they did. We don’t even know if these rules were inevitable. Perhaps other universes exist with slightly different rules. Perhaps in some universes, gravity is stronger or electromagnetism is weaker. If so, these universes’ inhabitants (if they have any) will tell different origin stories. Maybe some universes lasted for a millionth of a second, while others will exist much longer than ours. Perhaps some universes
