Universe 250+ Times Bigger Than What Is Observable

eldavojohn writes "The universe is only fourteen billion years old so we are unable to observe anything more than fourteen billion light years away. This makes it a bit difficult for us to measure how large the universe actually is. A number of methodologies have been devised to estimate the size of the universe including the universe's curvature, baryonic acoustic oscillations and the luminosity of distant type 1A supernovas. Now a team has combined all known methods into Bayesian model averaging to constrain the universe's size and their research is saying with confidence that the universe is at least 250 times larger than the observable universe."

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Re:What does that even mean?

[Stregano]

There is nothing north of the north pole. What is deeper then the center of the Earth? The center of Jupiter's earth. This is inferring that the universe is some type of sphere-shape similar to Earth where once we get to one side, we eventually go around again like being in orbit. I am pretty confident there is an end to the universe, and at the end: Chuck Norris. Yes,. I said it. Welcome to 4 years ago (I am a time traveller and forgot to go back soon enough to hit first post)