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This estimate is currently contested in the scientific community. Most current estimates for how big the "true" universe is only have it at 150 times (14 trillion ly) bigger based off of curvature. Other estimates have it at 250 times bigger.Sera EX said:Ah! I just remembered. According to the theory of cosmic inflation and its founder, Alan Guth, assuming that inflation began about 1037 seconds after the Big Bang, with the plausible assumption that the size of the Universe at this time was approximately equal to the speed of light times its age, that would suggest that at present the entire universe's size is at least 3x10^23 times larger than the size of the observable universe.
Which is exactly why I support Assalt's stance.