Perhaps a silly question... but I was wondering about it on my walk home today. It seems that in order for a "thing" to have a "place" it has to exist in comparison to some other thing that is in a different place. As we zoom out or zoom in far enough, this way of thinking about things breaks down.
The other way of thinking about it, I suppose, is that this is in itself just a linguistic trick. If we think of the universe as "everything" then by definition it can't be in a place relative to some other thing, since that thing would itself be part of everything. But this may have nothing to do with how things are outside of the world of linguistic trickery.
In any case, if the universe is "everything" then I must admit it was hard for me to explain or consider where the universe is... but it was also hard to consider that the universe doesn't have a "where" since everything that exists seems to occupy some kind of location - and yet without a relative point to compare something too, it's really hard to say "where" something is...
The universe is everything that came out from the big bang what your talking about is what's the universe in/on/next to.
Posted by: Paul | August 03, 2011 at 04:33 PM