From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Gregg N"  wrote in message
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> Robert Comer wrote:
>> Even current scientific theory doesn't say there's nothing outside of the
>> Universe for sure
>
> Isn't "the universe", by definition, everything? How can
there then be an
> "outside the universe". That would become part of the universe.
>
> Gregg

There's the multiverse theory

http://www.astronomy.pomona.edu/Projects/moderncosmo/Sean's%20mutliverse.html

The Multiverse theory for the universe has been a recently accepted theory
that describes the continuous formation of universes through the collapse
of giant stars and the formation of black holes.  With each of these black
holes there is a new point of singularity and a new possible universe.  As
Rees describes it, "Our universe may be just one element - one atom,
as it were - in an infinite ensemble: a cosmic archipelago.  Each universe
starts with its own big bang, acquires a distinctive imprint (and its
individual physical laws) as it cools, and traces out its own cosmic cycle.
 The big bang that triggered our entire universe is, in this grander
perspective, an infinitesimal part of an elaborate structure that extends
far beyond the range of any telescopes."  (Rees 3)  This puts our
place in the Multiverse into a small spectrum.  While the size of the earth
in relation to the sun is minuscule, the size of the sun, the solar system,
the galaxy, and even the universe, could pale in comparison to this
proposed Multiverse.  It would be a shift in thinking that may help explain
our big bang theory and possibly give light to the idea of parallel
universes.

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