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How Deep Does the Multiverse Go?

Posted by samzenpus on from the beyond-the-beyond dept.

StartsWithABang writes Our observable Universe is a pretty impressive entity: extending 46 billion light-years in all directions, filled with hundreds of billions of galaxies and having been around for nearly 14 billion years since the Big Bang. But what lies beyond it? Sure, there's probably more Universe just like ours that's unobservable, but what about the multiverse? Finally, a treatment that delineates the difference between the ideas that are thrown around and explains what's accepted as valid, what's treated as speculative, and what's completely unrelated to anything that could conceivably ever be observed from within our Universe.

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  1. Many worlds by Livius · · Score: 5, Funny

    In one version of reality, this is a first post!

    1. Re:Many worlds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      in one version of reality, "first" means "second". In another version, "first" means "small" and "post" means "penis".

  2. Re:Math? by LesFerg · · Score: 3, Funny

    A better analogy would also represent the space time continuum and the gravity well relative to the ant.
    See if your ant is walking on a large rubber sheet, then you drop a bowling ball on the spot the ant is currently at... oh wait, the universe just made my ant 2 dimensional.
    But you will notice that it is travelling much slower now...

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    If I had a DeLorean... I would probably only drive it from time to time.
  3. Re:It's turtles all the way down by DarthVain · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's turtles everywhere!

    That extra mass everyone is talking about? Dark Turtles.