The big splat and me!

This is what greeted me this morning glistening in the morning sunlight. There was a plethora (four or more) of them. As with the mushrooms there doesn't seem to be an obvious trigger to cause them to bloom.
I'm sure that all of us are familiar with the concept of the Big Bang which started our Universe. The latest proposal regarding the structure of the Universe is that there are large membrane like things called branes. We exist inside a brane. Think of a brane as a kind of a two dimensional string. One possibility is for two branes to collide resulting in our Big Bang. The assumption is that the Universe is formed at the point of the collision of two branes. However we know that at a micro level space consists of virtual particles popping and out of existence in pico seconds. The result is that multiple collisions occur simultaneously all over to entire brane causing the Big Bang to be spread out over the colliding branes. More of a Big Splat, really. The only change would be the distribution of energy at the time of creation of our Universe.
A Big Splat is proof that we're all on this flight together.

Dick