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n“The same spot?” Ning asked curiously. “Do you mean as in they exist in the same space? Like two things that phase through each other.”

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n“I see,” Ning said. “So, to get this straight, the Realm of Soul and the Realm of Energy is like a collection of soups with the occasional pieces of veggies that are the Realm of Matters.”

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n“I get it now,” Ning said, having a better idea now of how the world worked. However with that knowledge cleared up, the other questions that were in his mind started coming forward. And one of them was about the singularity that he had just heard of.

n“So the universe is created from a singularity with so much energy that everything else including Space, Time, and Matter formed from it,” he asked.

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n“And it continues to grow, correct?” he asked.

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nNing thought for a moment and asked, “How long into a universe’s lifetime do you think this happens?”

n“20?” Ning asked. “Really?”

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n“5%?” Ning found that quite hard to believe. “That would mean that a universe is as large as it could be just some time after its birth. Is that how it is?”

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n“Hmm, I don’t know why I expected it to somehow take billions of years,” Ning said. “Or is that the time frame we’re talking about.”

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nNing frowned a little when he heard that. Something about what he knew about the universe didn’t match with what he was finding out.

n“My universe, the one where Earth originally was,” he said. “If I remember it correctly, it was a few billion years old when I was born there and left there, wasn’t it?”

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n“25? I thought it was 13-something. Anyway, not the point of the question,” Ning said. “How large would you categorize that universe compared to the other ones.”

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n“Okay, and how long did that universe take to expand to its largest size?” Ning asked.

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n“6 billion years?” Ning asked. Now that didn’t make any sense to him. Or at least, whatever the humans thought they had figured out about the universe was completely incorrect. To be fair, they never did get to see the entire universe, only a portion of it so maybe it was a bit understandable.

nStill, Ning wanted to know where the confusion was.

n“If the universe stopped expanding around 6 billion years after its formation, then what happens to the galaxies that are thrust around the universe?” he asked. “is the universe so large that they still have ages to fill it entirely?”

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n“That’s… confusing,” Ning said. “So if the universe is completely formed in 6 Billion years, then what about the matter? Does it suddenly stop at the edge of the Universe, or does it continue moving and smashing into the edge of the universe?”

n“I guess I’m trying to learn what happens at the edge of the universe,” he said.

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nNing paused for a moment. “They can never reach the edge of the universe?” he asked. “What do you mean?”

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n“Shape of the universe?” Ning asked. “It’s a sphere, isn’t it? I would assume it all expanded equally, so it should be a sphere. If not, an elliptical shape?”

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n“A… what?” Ning asked.

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nNing couldn’t help but frown. “I don’t think I get it,” he said. “The Universe is actually Four-dimensional?”

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n“How come we never knew that?” Ning asked. “How come we don’t see the other dimension?”

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n“Only Space and Time?” Ning asked.

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nNing felt frustrated. “What the hell does that even…” he sighed. “But didn’t you say that we’re already at the edge of the universe?”

n“Can you explain what that means?”

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