Thread: What if there is something outside the universe?

Originally Posted by Idolfan

You can't go outside the universe, it's the universe.

So, I guess no one ever taught you not to use the word your defining in the definition.

Also the definition of universe "encompasses everything" has changed in recent years. Specifically with the study of Quantum Mechanics. It is not as simple as "The Universe is the Universe" anymore. The OP has a valid inquiry.

Start a religion about it. Maybe you'll luck out like Scientology. lol

Originally Posted by ExoByte

So, I guess no one ever taught you not to use the word your defining in the definition.

Also the definition of universe "encompasses everything" has changed in recent years. Specifically with the study of Quantum Mechanics. It is not as simple as "The Universe is the Universe" anymore. The OP has a valid inquiry.

If you went outside the whole of the universe, then what you used to be in would cease to be the whole of the universe, so it's a logical impossibility.

You kinda just completely ignored Exo. What you just said doesn't contradict him.

Originally Posted by Idolfan

If you went outside the whole of the universe, then what you used to be in would cease to be the whole of the universe, so it's a logical impossibility.

Oh, because we couldn't possibly define "universe" in more than one way. Perhaps, beyond the massive void sometimes called the border of the universe, there are other universes, together compiling the "multiverse." I see no reason our universe should be exclusive.

Everyone is a universe, we've been living in a multiverse this whole time!