On 10/20/2010 9:37 AM, Warp wrote:
>
>    A "superuniverse" hypothesis is most probably not testable for the
> very reason that we are completely bound to the laws and geometry of
> our own Universe. We have no way to reach the "outside" (because there
> is no "outside" as far as this Universe is concerned, because we are
> bound to its internal geometry, which knows no "outside").
>
>    However, if there is a "superuniverse", and our "sub-universe" (if we
> can call it like that) popped into existence inside it, that
> "superuniverse" would be, by definition, supernatural.
>

Interesting thought. Almost brings about the whole simulation 
hypothesis. Wherein we're actually living within a simulation of some 
sort. We can only observe what is within the bounds of our simulation. 
Beyond that, nothing is observable. By that /something/ has to be 
running the simulation. It explains a lot of unexplainable stuff, but 
its also unprovable. We can't prove there is something outside our own 
universe because it's beyond what we can observe about our own universe.

It's just a hypothesis, though. For all we know matter and the universe 
as we know it is totally concrete and is not simply a construct of some 
very complicated model. We'll never know. Speculation on what we are and 
what we live in is fun. That hypothesis probably belongs on the Periodic 
Table of Utter Nonsense somewhere... ;)

-- 
~Mike

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