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scott_s on July 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How big is the entire universe?

I think that confusing A, B or C with "the Universe, all of it" is hardly grounds to call someone an idiot.

goodside on July 26, 2012 [–]

There isn't anything of importance in cosmology that's a clean multiple of 14.6 billion LY. Anything under discussion at that scale would by influenced by the Hubble expansion.

But, yeah, being misinformed about cosmology doesn't make you an idiot. Hyperbole.

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