4D Star Collapse Lead to Our Universe?

Here’s your Monday afternoon mind-bender…

It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed into a black hole — a scenario that would help to explain why the cosmos seems to be so uniform in all directions.

via Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe? : Nature News & Comment.