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And if it were, would it constitute an expanding bubble in our universe - with a definite (expanding) surface.

That would be nice - none of this irritating "everywhere is the centre and there is no edge" business...

But would it have the mass of our universe concentrated in a small (to start with) space? That would cause problems to our space-time fabric, wouldn't it?

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The current framework that we use to model our universe is the FLRW model of the universe given by the FLRW metric in general relativity. This model has 1 unique singularity at co-moving time $t=0$. There are no other singularities in this model of the universe (it's not a fine-grained enough model that singularities like those inside black holes would show up within this model). Since there's only the 1 singularity in this model, our current understanding of the universe does not really permit a secondary "Big Bang" occurring as an "event" within our universe.

Your question runs into a few other issues such as "how do you define 'a big bang'?". The concept of a big bang singularity originated from within the FLRW model where it is unique. If you have other models of the universe (or multi-verse) - how would you define what's a "big bang" within them?

From a more general point of view with regards to multiverse theories, all I can really say is that the concept of a "multiverse" is, at this time, purely speculative from a physics perspective.

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