We wouldn't exist if our cosmic neighbourhood had been just a bit less dense than average during the tumultuous moments after the big bang
It began with a bang. What cosmic coincidences preceded our universe's birth are in the realms of speculation. Suffice it to say that some 13.75 billion years ago - give or take a yoctosecond - the cosmos was deciding what to be when it grew up.
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