I would also like to vote for Tiberius's definition of the universe since I think that is closer to what science says. Isn't the universe pretty much everything that was created by the big bang and so inside out spacetime and anything outside that is another universe?
Mark Taylor: "Religious conflict will be less a matter of struggles between belief and unbelief than of clashes between believers who make room for doubt and those who do not."
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
Einstein: “The most unintelligible thing about nature is that it is intelligible”
