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Theoretical framework explores universe reproduction and branching via gravitational collapse, suggesting new views on dynamics and entropy.
This paper presents a speculative framework, which I call the Kinetic Impact Fractal Branching (KIFB) model, intended to explore a possible mechanism for universe reproduction that differs from both standard eternal inflation and traditional cyclic cosmologies. The central hypothesis is that the multiverse may not have originated from a successful initial expansion, but rather from a primordial failure: an initial quantum fluctuation that produced a non-viable universe, which then underwent gravitational collapse. I suggest that this first collapse may have acted as a kinetic trigger on the inflaton landscape, initiating a fractal chain of n-branching events and enabling the selection of viable physical constants through dynamical succession rather than pure randomness. This proposal is not offered as a completed theory, but as a conceptual model meant to stimulate further mathematical development. In particular, I argue that a collapse-driven branching mechanism may provide a fresh way to think about entropy, selection effects, and the transition from one cosmological generation to the next.
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