The Matryoshka Multiverse

Ashton Edwards
By Ashton Edwards
Astronomy
The Matryoshka Multiverse

The web of worlds: Stars form galaxies, these groups and clusters, these superclusters, this universe of ours – why should the hierarchy end here? Perhaps the entire observable universe is just a tiny speck in a larger space and this one universe in an even larger one… and so on. Nobody knows how gigantic the cosmos is.
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by RÜDIGER VAAS

That our universe could be embedded in something larger is an old idea. The French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, for example, thought before 1662 that

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