More food for thought. Excuse the digression!
I said "So the distribution of matter would be the same, whether it be there or here."
That needs to be qualified. It refers, of course, to the visible universe. But what do we mean by 'visible'? Sure, we are able to see light from as far as 13.7 billion lt yrs away, because that's all the time that light has had to reach us. Yet whilst that light has been on its journey, the universe has been expanding at an increasing rate. It's now generally agreed that the objects we see at the 'edge' - i.e. which were 13.7 billion lt yrs away when the light began its journey - are now 78 billion lt yrs away. Furthermore, there are Inflation theories saying that even that is only a tiny fraction of the whole.
What would that greater part is like? How would its matter be distributed? We can never know for sure, whatever the theoretical evidence.
