I remember a science fiction novel in which the space ship, having approached the speed of light, went punching right through the centers of dense stars, neither the star nor the ship feeling a thing. I don't know about that, but by now we all know that neutrinos stream unimpeded throughout the universe. They're so light, so speedy, that jillions of them pass through us everyday leaving no impression. Scientists lay seas of liquid underground trying to catch one, so far to the best of my knowledge without avail.
But you don't have to go at c velocity to leave no impression. Great ideas, intricate artifacts, pass through universities, through churches, through political entities without acknowledgment, leaving not a ripple.
Some creatures live and die but then some print of them turns up one hundred million years later as a fossil. What kind of universe would there have to be for unnoted ideas to sometimes fossilize?
Neutrinos? Forget about it. Universes manifest many events, few records. And human record keeping is always manipulated by some agenda.
The Sandman comics kept a library of unpublished books, vast. A whole universe right there.
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