You missed the 'why are they bothering with the universe when they could just play hyper-realistic video games with a matrioshka or jupiter brain, or in other words, a planet-sized or greater hypercomputer that, able to operate extremely fast and handle unimaginably large amounts of data, is able to simulate entire, hyper-realistic or even more complex universes for its creators to goof around in like a horribly advanced Second Life' question?