Dr Akshay Honrao, BDS,PGDIP(Orthodontics)
Pull a piece of cheese apart slowly. It doesn't break randomly β it separates along its naturalgrain. Thin strings form between the solid chunks, and eventually those strings snap, leavingseparate pieces.The universe is doing the same thing. Space itself is stretching β what we call "cosmicexpansion." Between the galaxies, there's a web of matter β the "cosmic web" β made of thinfilaments connecting clusters of galaxies, with massive empty voids between them. As expansionaccelerates, the filaments stretch thinner, the voids grow larger, and eventually, the connectionswill break.But in our framework, those voids aren't just empty space. They're the BOUNDARIES betweenparallel branches of reality β the places where our universe separates from its neighbouringbranches. The cosmic web IS the branch structure of the multiverse, made visible. And theexpansion isn't the universe getting bigger β it's the branches drifting apart.If you're in a simulation, this makes perfect sense: why waste computing power rendering theempty space between galaxy clusters that will never interact? The voids are simplyUNRENDERED SPACE β the simulation's way of saving memory. The expansion is the systemallocating more memory as it runs. And the cosmic web is the network topology connecting theactive computation nodes.