It turns out physicists have a pretty good story for how we ended up in a nonbland universe full of structure. Here’s the theory: small quantum fluctuations in the early universe were stretched by the rapid expansion of space-time (i.e., inflation) into huge enormous wrinkles that seeded the formation of stars and galaxies by gravity, which was aided by dark matter; and at some point in there, dark energy started stretching space out even farther.
Good story
