Do you believe in God?

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Frogberto

Absolutely. I think the current status of data shows that our universe is not an infinite one, but any questions of what's outside of our universe, whether other universes exist, or have different laws than ours, what came before the big bang, or whether our universe always existed requires data outside of space and time (or our universe), and thus can only be pure speculation, without supporting data, almost by definition.

But it sure is fun to think about.

Just to clarify, by definition there is only one Universe. There is nothing outside it, there are no other universes simply because where there to be such things they would, by definition, become part of the universe. Since the universe is defined as being everything there is.

That being said, I do believe that what we observe as "the universe" is not unique. There was not just one big bang. They are going off all over the place like bubbles in a glass of soda. But from our perspective inside our own bubble (that we currently define as "the universe") that's just all we can observe, the inside of our bubble.