(November 5, 2009 at 4:33 am)solarwave Wrote: leo-rcc: Well you can keep using the word universe for everything that exists just as I could use the word earth to mean everything (the sun in the the earth, so is the milkyway), but I think you'll find more people using it as meaning this spacetime created by the big bang eventually.
I doubt that very much. The universe is regarded as being "everything" by far more people than "this spacetime created by the big bang". It is even where the word comes from, "Universum, everything is one"
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you