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All very true.All correct. Which is why all such discussions are theories unless evidence is provided.
Physicists, not ufo wackadoodles, have postulated the multiverse theory. Still, like life after death, a supernatural creator of the Universe and other such theories, they are just theories.
The concept of the multiverse arises in a few areas of physics (and philosophy), but the most prominent example comes from something called inflation theory. Inflation theory describes a hypothetical event that occurred when our universe was very young — less than a second old. In an incredibly brief amount of time, the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion, "inflating" to become many orders of magnitude larger than its previous size, according to NASA.
Inflation of our universe is thought to have ended about 14 billion years ago, said Heling Deng, a cosmologist at Arizona State University and an expert in multiverse theory. "However, inflation does not end everywhere at the same time," Deng told Live Science in an email. "It is possible that as inflation ends in some region, it continues in others."
Thus, while inflation ended in our universe, there may have been other, much more distant regions where inflation continued — and continues even today. Individual universes can "pinch off" of larger inflating, expanding universes, creating an infinite sea of eternal inflation, filled with numerous individual universes.
Some physicists like the multierse conjecture, others don't. Some physicists don't even like the inflation hypothesis, though others do.
Either way, there's no evidence for it, but it's perfectly reasonable to speculate about it. Also reasonable to speculate about sentient life elsewhere in the galaxy.
Whether life originated once in the universe, or wherever it originated a billion times, we know for a fact that life can arise in this universe. That in itself elevates it beyond speculation to actual fact. . But the multi verse has never advanced beyond pure conjecture.
We've never seen the physical constants vary, so the conservative assumption is that they can't, absent any other evidence.
The multi verse and inflation weren't even advanced as speculations until the 1980s and 1990s, when it was realized there were some curious things about the Big Bang and about the precision with which the physical constants are finely tuned, and ideas were needed to make them seem less curious.
Science doesn't like coincidences, and the scientific method assumes we live in a rationally intelligible universe, so it's perfectly reasonable from a scientific perspective to try to make curiosities go away.