Astronomers discovered that the universe of matter and energy is far, far larger and older literally than the human brain is capable of intuiting

From my perspective, this is not an astronomical or physical or theological problem but a linguistic one — basically a word problem, or a word game.

Before Wittgenstein or Heisenberg or Schrodinger, G. K. Chesterton posited in “Orthodoxy”:

Why, then, should one worry particularly to call [the universe ] large? There is nothing to compare it with. It would be just as sensible to call it small. A man may say, “I like this vast cosmos, with its throng of stars and its crowd of varied creatures.” But if it comes to that why should not a man say, “I like this cosy little cosmos, with its decent number of stars and as neat a provision of live stock as I wish to see”? One is as good as the other; they are both mere sentiments. It is mere sentiment to rejoice that the sun is larger than the earth; it is quite as sane a sentiment to rejoice that the sun is no larger than it is. A man chooses to have an emotion about the largeness of the world; why should he not choose to have an emotion about its smallness?

My point is not that there’s an answer to your speculations, but that our questions say more about us than they say about the so-called larger universe that we seek to describe.