I'm in favor of #3 plasma-filled cosmos, #6 the multiverse, and #8 super-fluid spacetime, with my own twist of course...
There are 18 known phases of water ice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice
That's just water, and just the types of frozen water, not counting liquid, gas, plasma, and whatever other states there are. By extrapolation, I presuppose there are, say 1000 phases of every element in the periodic table, and 1000 states of matter - millions of states and phases of matter constantly transitioning to-and-fro. What we perceive as empty space might be just another state, or phase, of matter, or many of them, that exist below the threshold of detection of our senses and scientific instruments.
Galaxies, stars, planets, us... are like electrons flowing friction-less through a superconducting substrate. Except this substrate doesn't just carry electrons, it carries all forms of matter that we know of. But this substrate might not be the only one of its kind - there may be many types. This could lead to a multiverse of sorts, levels of reality or planes of existence, defined by the type of medium in which it is immersed, superimposed, co-existing, and totally unaware of other media, but comprising the bulk.
Universes begin, and end, when a particular medium changes state or phase, or starts to dissolve into another. These processes of mixing, separating, reacting, might themselves be fueled by yet other undiscovered forms of matter and energy, tectonic shifts in the strata of reality. How deep could the cosmic ocean be? How many layers could the crust of the universe have? Beats me. Reduction might be a good way to understand the rules governing complex systems, but complex is how things actually are. Vast amounts of evidence are needed to figure it out, or even scratch the surface.
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