Welcome to BAUT, bluegruntfuttock!

If you take a sufficiently broad interpretation of "forms around tiny imperfections", then this is the explanation of one aspect of the cosmic (microwave) background radiation (CMB), as observed by missions such as WMAP - inflation blows up random quantum fluctuations, leaving a characteristic 'message' across the sky ...

As to the formation of the universe, well, the challenge in getting a handle on even the most general class of phenomena that could be described as you have, in the above post, is that there is no (tested, consistent) theory which incorporates both gravity and quantum phenomena ...