Big Bang

[Dr H]

Neither.
We are probably one of infinite universes that pop into existence by borrowing energy from a neigbouring universe/brane.
I'm sure it sounds weird and illogical but if we were to see from the outside, it may make sense. Then again, how far can an ape brain expand?

We may be asking a little too much to expect to know or unravel the universes deepest mysteries. We may never know.

There's only so much we can learn about a system with which we are intimately intertwined, by studying it as parts of the system ourselves.  If there is such a thing as a "multiverse", we may someday find a way to study our universe from the "outside", as it were, and we may be able to answer questions like that.

But of course there will be then be new questions about the multiverse that we can't answer.