https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5d93qx/scientists-discover-time-when-our-laws-of-physics-didnt-apply-and-we-exist-because-of-it

Scientists have discovered new evidence that the universe was briefly governed by different physical laws than it is today, producing a violation to which we owe our very existence, reports a new study.

The results open a window into the mysterious epoch of inflation, an ultrashort period when the universe expanded exponentially fractions of a second after the Big Bang.