> this soup of energy and matter was near-uniform We can only infer this in the region that we can see in the CMB, which is a small region when re-wound back t

> this soup of energy and matter was near-uniform We can only infer this in the region that we can see in the CMB, which is a small region when re-wound back to the instant after the BB. What you are suggesting is that this uniformity was infinite in all directions, which is not what we're able to infer given the data we have so far. Are you even familiar with the idea of the multiverse or bubble nucleation.