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Why do cosmologists limit their thinking and calculating to just our Observable Universe (OU)? I've never seen a single article saying that the sum of everything that exists is in our OU and that there's nothing more "out there" beyond what we can see. In other words, I think that everyone agrees that what we can presently see in our OU is not the total of what resulted from the Big Bang. That being so, there most probably are thousands, perhaps millions, of other OUs just like ours "out there" but they are outside our range of vision at present. These others "out there" may be identical in all ways to our OU (most probable scenario) but they could just as well be a bit different --- maybe even a lot different. Doesn't this mean that these other universes that are beyond our observation could be influencing our OU in some ways (maybe a lot of ways)? Why isn't this rather probable possibility being taken into account? If they were close enough and there were enough of them, could this perhaps account in some way for what we're calling "Dark Energy"?
Frank
Frank