>>14376547It could also be defined as "time, space, and everything that exists withing them
Do you think it's conceivable that something could exist "outside" time and space? That would not be defined as part of the Universe
Some people seem to think that the Big Bang happened "in" a state of timelessness and spacelessness, it's tempting to conceive of it as whatever was the primordial universe suspended in a sea of... Whatever not the Universe is
Well, whatever, the only thing certain is that it's pure speculation because we'll never "see" outside the Universe anyway, we cannot even see to the end of it