XPost: sci.physics.relativity   
   From: f00@0f0.00f   
      
   Sylvia Else wrote:   
   > On 21-Oct-24 1:40 am, The Starmaker wrote:   
   >> kazu wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> essentially what i am asking is, is there something outside? or   
   >>> can there even be outside??   
   >>>   
   >>> is the universe like an egg and we are the yoke??   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The earth is like an egg. But you first have to boil the egg for   
   >> 3 minutes..then remove the earth crust, and cut the egg in half   
   >> and you   
   >> will see the earth's core.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > The current thinking is that the universe is infinite in spatial   
   > extent, but only 13.7 billion years old. In consequence of its   
   > finite age, we can only see a finite amount of it.   
   >   
   > So whether it's really infinite in extent is not something we   
   > actually know, and can probably never know. We also don't know   
   > whether the physical laws are really the same everywhere. There   
   > could be variations that are too small to be detectable in the   
   > amount of the universe that we can see.   
   >   
   > In some ways, having physical laws that vary over the universe is   
   > philosophically attractive, because it could be an answer to why   
   > the laws we see seem so finely tuned to support our existence.   
   >   
   > Sylvia.   
      
      
   maybe the fine tuning observation may go the way of aether with a   
   better theory? i cannot believe this universe is special or   
   privileged or even we as a species.   
      
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