I took a good long look at the CMB picture, including the caption. It basically says the Universe was one big hot apparently uniform ball at one stage.
I don't know what conditions were like before that stage, but like Eric Idle says, nothing can come from nothing.
Dark energy is a horse shit name for a theory that was horse shit to begin with. The Universe is probably just inhomogeneous, like your intuition is saying.
Meanwhile the NASDAQ fell 4.18% Friday just been. This seems more than just a coincidence, people have been talking about pulling investment ahead of the SpaceX IPO, and the latest market activity makes me think the discontent is tangible now.
I imagine this making more sense if this were framed with the backdrop of living in an authoritarian state, with progressively worsening social conditions.
You can choose to protest (blue button) and if over some threshold of people then conditions reset. Otherwise protestors are killed off, and red buttoners survive, but with increased oppression.
Sorry for bringing the mood down with this topic. I'll go back to playing Papers Please! now.
Thanks, nice detailed overview. I've found this sort of info hard to find. There's also this seeming broadcast schedule which I can't follow for the life of me: