This is Kepler&#x27;s theory, and it gets into philosophical trouble, as cosmologists generally take it as axiomatic that the laws of physics are the same everywhere, and so don&#x27;t have much time for theories that depend on us being in a special place in the universe. A universe having a lower density of stars everywhere above some radius from Earth does put us in a special place, is hard to reconcile with universal laws, and there is no empirical evidence for it. An explanation that derives from the universe evolving over time, however, has none of the philosophical problems and does have supporting empirical evidence.