> Just see how many people think that when a scientist says "the universe" that they mean the entire universe and not, as scientists mean, the observable universe
We once pestered our physics professor to explain what’s outside the universe. He finally said that’s a dumb question, the universe is definitionally everything, if we find anything beyond the edge of the universe, we’ll just call that universe too.
We once pestered our physics professor to explain what’s outside the universe. He finally said that’s a dumb question, the universe is definitionally everything, if we find anything beyond the edge of the universe, we’ll just call that universe too.
Always liked that framing.