> The human mind is very much suited to understand things to have beginnings and ends. Our own universe very clearly had a beginning and will certainly have an

> The human mind is very much suited to understand things to have beginnings and ends. Our own universe very clearly had a beginning and will certainly have an end. I think you might be overstating your case a bit. Non-Western cultures don't have as much an emphasis on things having a clear beginning, middle, and end, the cosmological claim that the universe clearly must be temporally bounded is not even the dominant stance for modern day inflation theorists. There are other alternates (eternal inflation [1], 'big bounce' [2], etc.) I think part of the confusion stems also from language. A multiverse where other 'universes' are physically accessible to us in principle (if we're willing to wait long enough or go far enough), should that really be considered another universe? On the other hand, there are even parts of our current space-time that are so remote that we will never see them—so are they other 'universes'? As a counterpoint, Chinese culture certainly focuses more on the inherent cyclicality of things—even beginnings and ends are embedded in a larger cycle that may not have bounds. “话说天下大势，分久必合，合久必分” It is said that in the great scheme of the world, that which is long divided, must unite, and long united, must divide [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_inflation [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bounce