Have another toke.
I've always felt the metaphor that best matches the facts of the observable universe is a computer simulation.
Plug in some numbers for the physical constants (c, h, fine-structure, etc), initiate to the Big Bang, and execute. See what kind of universe you get, and if you don't like it, reset the constants and run it again.
The constants are the data/software. Their is no hardware except the space time continuum itself.