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> defined to be all that exists

"universe" may be as shortsighted as our ancestors calling our favorite space-faring rock "uniearth". Such a sibylline definition falls on its head as soon as one tries to define "existence" and finds it ultimately bound to lowly concepts of space or time. What to say of a "uni"-verse that is a constant collapse of probabilistic functions, where every possible permutation simultaneously exists until observed? Let's be humble, and cut some slack at putting words on what we're looking at, because we're really not quite so sure.



Or naming the atom "atom".




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