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Old 03-17-2006, 03:17 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Cowperson
One of my favourite "lay awake at night staring at the ceiling" questions is:

"What lies beyond the universe?"

Other universes? Other big bangs? To infinity?

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"Staring into the abyss, at the edge of forever, I contemplated what existed beyond."

"How can we be sure our whole universe is nothing but a uranium atom undergoing nuclear fission in some kind of Cosmic Hiroshima?"

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
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