I. The Problem with “Universe”
For most of human intellectual history, the word universe meant everything. Total. Complete. The whole of what exists, wrapped in a single word like a bow on an infinite gift. Then physics grew ambitious, and the bow came undone.
Today, cosmologists speak not of one universe but of many — a multiverse, a meta-structure so vast it renders our own observable cosmos into something resembling a single raindrop in an ocean with no shoreline. But here is the question that haunts both physicists and philosophers alike: if there are many universes, what shape does the collection take? What is the architecture of everything?
