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How Big is the Universe? Science of Space. Why we think there’s a Multiverse, not just our Universe. “Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.”

Why we think there’s a Multiverse, not just our Universe

-Otto Weininger The best measurements of the distant Universe — out beyond our galaxy — have led us to the current picture of exactly what our Universe is doing: expanding and cooling, with its galaxies progressively getting farther and farther apart. Is There Intelligent Life in The Universe? (Columbia University, 2006) Our small world.