(November 1, 2011 at 1:33 am)lucent Wrote: It's a logically incoherent definition since all the systems are functionally interdependent, thus former a larger system, and all having a common origin. A Universe full of universes is still a Universe.No. A conceptual ensemble of all possible universes is called an Omniverse, not Universe. Within the context of physical cosmology ours [universe] having only one set of "physical laws and constants that governs it, whereas the Omniverse has all possible laws of physics.
The concept is not incoherent.
