TacticalPenguin
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There is only one universe. That isn't an assumption. Uni means "one."
If there were more than one universe...then they wouldn't really be universes at all.
you probably forgot that a petaminx is not a cube and therefore can not be arranged with 100% effeiciency making the nuber even larger.
Uni does mean one, but that doesn't mean that a universe is the only one. Unicycles have one wheel, but that doesn't mean that only one unicycle exists, does it? We don't know for sure whether our universe is the only one or not. The word was coined long before we had come up with all kinds of reasonably possible theories allowing for or even promoting the idea of multiple universes, trying to use the etymology in argument is foolish.
And of course my calculations assumed it was seamless; because the tera and petaminxes are pillowed, it will not be seamless, so even MORE spaces equal in size to our current observable universe would be filled.
The unicycle argument is the most flawed and incoherent thing I've heard all day.
What does the "uni" in universe mean then? There is certainly more than one galaxy in the universe.
In any case it doesn't matter because the question/statement made cannot be answered.
As I said, an argument based on the etymology of a word created long before modern science came up with the big bang theory and string theory and all other such theories allowing or proposing the existence of multiple "universes" is rather useless.
You first say it isn't even an assumption to say there's only one, and then you say it doesn't matter because we don't know and can't find out for sure?