Originally Posted by
Eupalinos
I too apologize for my ignorance, which I'm confident is greater than either of yours, but a question I have that may seem very naive is why the limits of the universe are ascribed to space and time. Are not space or time perceptions we have of something, and not the something itself? Just as we perceive a color or sound, unaware of light or sound waves themselves. What we call space, time, sound, color are interpretations of perceptions, no? Therefore why are space and time distinguished as more important than any other ways we perceive reality?
Don't the laws of physics, in our own universe, change according to the nearness of the big bang, that is the further back one goes towards the beginning? So I rashly assumed the physics of a universe were probably unique and that if there are other universes their laws would likely evolve in a different way. I hope someone more knowledgable will chime in.