NicholasConners

Ah yes. Thanks for reminding me. I often forget how late most plant life bloomed. My head usually sticks in the Dinosaurian eras. This wouldn't ruin the food chain idea however. With a slight change from plant life to the minerals generated or provided by thermal vents in the ocean or primordial soup.

Let's break it down. You can not have a food chain that starts with a predator. There would be nothing for that predator to eat. Even if the predator happens to be a single or multi-celled microbial piece of life. I'm inclined to believe the possibility that it was initially plant material that formed, then life that absorbed nutrients from that, and over time life that devoured the plant absorbing life. Giving rise to the food chain and evidently the moon pie.

it is possible that this is the one and only. It could expand and contract, expanding again and continuing this cycle. Ofcourse there could be another universe, or ours could be like this, that expands to a point where every particle within it rips apart and the universe because an unstable soup of infinity with no laws of physics. In this case it is possible for another universe to be pinched off from the ripping one as a result of the unstable mixing particles matter and unbalanced laws. So it could be that our Universe was formed from another one, and could hold the possibility to create a second one. Signs show our universe may possibly be a "Big Rip" universe, but it is too early to tell exactly.