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I have never seen this explicitly stated as a definition of "the universe" and I'd like to know what you all think:
The Universe = the smallest perfectly closed system that includes me. |
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The universe is defined as everything that exists.
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"What else can one say about the universe, except that it's the greatest"
Mauve'Bib's Thousand and One Sure-Fire Banquet Jokes. (Quoted in "Doon") |
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Universe is just a small region in the multiverse.
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No, the universe is defined as everything. There is nothing outside it, by definition!
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I've always gone with cfgauss' definition.
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So do many physicists!
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