>eg. by nucleating the vacuum collapse. The first advanced species to reach that point could kill every species in the universe and start the whole thing over f

>eg. by nucleating the vacuum collapse. The first advanced species to reach that point could kill every species in the universe and start the whole thing over from scratch. How do you imagine the Universe resetting? Assuming the false vacuum decay occurs, I don't think any species (no matter how advanced) could reset the vacuum state back to a metastable state post-collapse. It does just appear to be the anthropic principle, but with some extra steps.