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Yes, but it might also be the case that we don't observe something outside of it, but rather infer the existence of something outside of it through some other p
by alansammarone 9y ago
Yes, but it might also be the case that we don't observe something outside of it, but rather infer the existence of something outside of it through some other phenomenon (which is much more probable - observing something outside of the visible universe as we know it would violate relativity). In that sense, it would be there, but would never be visible.
- Swizec 9y agoThat's a really interesting question. If something is indirectly observable (you can observe/measure its effect), does that make it observable or not? Transitivit would say yes. If A implies B and B implies C then A implies C. That is, if you can observe A and that implies B, then you can observe B. Which makes it observable, no?
- barrkel 9y agoAll observations are inferences from indirect phenomena.