So to your question, I think the book says that yes, either the universe was created with this cool egg in pi as a message for civilizations to find once the go

So to your question, I think the book says that yes, either the universe was created with this cool egg in pi as a message for civilizations to find once the got computers that were good enough to scan for statistical anomalies 2*20 digits deep in pi, or else the egg was somehow hacked into it some time after creation.