2) Disseminate a fungus which grows on trees so we can target those left-wing tree-huggers. Check.

3) ???

4) Profit!!!

Damnit - I forgot the part where we nuke the whales. Oh, well - nothing's perfect.

Now, the quarks making up those newfangled heavy atoms - those have been around since the beginning.

I personally have doubts. After all, we can't observe the "edge" of the Universe now, only where the "edge" was some fourteen billion years ago. That "light cone" problem also sorta puts a damper on how detailed an observation we can make. Not saying it's a bad theory, just that I'm having a hard time seeing how it's falsifiable. Besides, everyone knows it's turtles all the way down . . .