Universe

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. Progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
- electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend

unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.
A world of made
is not a world of born – pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. We doctors know

a hopeless case if – listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go


-- e. e. cummings

What few understand is that if the universe is expanding...into where is it expanding?

everything , including you , me and the computer you're sitting at right now

The Answer to Life, The Universe, and Everything is 42

Some people say the universe is curved. This means that if you travel far enough, you will eventually catch up with yourself.

Speak for yourself – I shall have much better things to do in the Universe than worrying about where to keep all my stuff. Indeed, I'm looking forward to being entirely without mass and weightless – free at last of all the heavy burdens of gravity....

According to Merriam-Webster

uni*verse (noun)

[Latin universum, from neuter of universus entire, whole, from uni- + versus turned toward, from past participle of vertere to turn – more at WORTH]

First appeared 1589

1 : the whole body of things and phenomena observed or postulated : COSMOS: as

a : a systematic whole held to arise by and persist through the direct intervention of divine power

b : the world of human experience

c (1) : the entire celestial cosmos

(2) : MILKY WAY GALAXY

(3) : an aggregate of stars comparable to the Milky Way galaxy

2 : a distinct field or province of thought or reality that forms a closed system or self-inclusive and independent organization

3 : POPULATION 4

4 : a set that contains all elements relevant to a particular discussion or problem

5 : a great number or quantity <a large enough ~ of stocks ... to choose from --G. B. Clairmont>

The Beatles – Across The Universe
(Lennon/McCartney)

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup,
They slither while they pass, they slip away Across the Universe.
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind,
Possessing and caressing me.

Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on Across the Universe.
Thoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter box,
They tumble blindly as they make their way Across the Universe

Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.

Sounds of laughter, shades of earth are ringing
Through my open ears inciting and inviting me.
Limitless, undying love, which shines around me like a million suns,
And calls me on and on Across the Universe

Jai Guru Deva Om
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.
Nothing's gonna change my world, Nothing's gonna change my world.

I've never understood how people can talk about »alternate universes.«

If the universe is everything, everything meaning EVERYTHING, then...

How can there be more than one?

Alternate dimensions, sure.

But I would have to consider all of those alternate dimensions to be part of THE universe.

And maybe every time we make a decision, reality branches off, forming an infinite number of possible realities (which are all equally real, even if they can't be perceived simultaneously).

But all of those versions of reality... all part of THE universe.

Universe is not a word that you should pluralize.