Originally posted by Conrau K
This sounds interesting. I guess what people mentally picture is that our universe is some kind of sphere included in an even larger sphere (/universe). What your saying is that this larger sphere would also be part of the universe.
indeed, the universe includes everything, forever.
I've spent the evening counting seeds as they germinate (for an experiment) and thinking about relativity. Here's my thoughts.
Immediately after the bang the was a huge amount of energy going in all of the rapidly unfolding dimensions. As time went on this cooled and condensed and gave us matter - this was quite fortunate for us. Before that however, the proto-universe was in a state that, had someone from now been able to look at it, we wouldn't comprehend. Neither matter nor energy existed, what existed was something that would give rise to both these things (call it god if you like, but this in no way gives it any sentience). This stuff existed for both an immeasurably small amount of time, and a huge expanse of time too, if there were anything such as time for it to exist
in. At this point there was no time, mass, energy, nothing. Likewise in this ultimate high energy state, the rules of the universe (which is just what cause and effect etc are) didn't exist either. Anything could happen, and eventually did, when the universe came into existance. I think the Ancient Greeks were closest on this one.
I haven't thought it all through yet, but it's implicit in Einstein's theory. I could be wrong, but it'd require Professor Einstein to be wrong too....