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Observable universe and its mysteries

The first glimmers of the observable universe and the traces of the first moments of creation have reached us. The Universe by definition contains everything that exists, including space-time, so it has no “edge”. Indeed, the existence of an edge would imply that beyond this edge, we would no longer be in the Universe, are we going to cross this observable limit?

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