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Asked by blue to Adam, Eloise, Iona, Jarrod, Yip on 18 Jun 2016.
Question: what is outside our universe?
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Man Hang Yip answered on 18 Jun 2016:
Nothing? Another universe? Our our universe is infinite? Honestly I don’t know and nobody knows yet. There are some theories of what it is outside, but it is something that is not being answered.
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Jarrod Hart answered on 20 Jun 2016:
And what is before time?
I think to contemplate this type of question you have to extrapolate from 3 to 4 dimensions – there is a good short story/book, called ‘Flatland – A romance of many dimensions’ written in the 1880’s which tried to consider this sort of thing.
You can read the whole thing here:
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Flatland/It’s the story of a man who lives in two dimensions and has no concept of the third, and it tells of how he discovers it and how strange it is to him… a nice read and thought provoking.
I’d love to chat about this, but I fear i would never stop! If you really get into it, there are loads of books on it, and quite nice ones are by John Gribbin – if you tell your parents to get you one, I am sure they will, you know, for your ‘education’ (never mind that they are also quite fun!).
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Books-John-Gribbin/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A266239%2Cp_27%3AJohn%20Gribbin
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Iona Strawson answered on 20 Jun 2016:
I think there are other universes. It’s a really interesting question though.
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