# If one universe comes out of another universe are there infiniely many universes

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**Created:** [March 4, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-one-universe-comes-out-of-another-universe-are-there-infiniely-many-universes/747964 "2016-03-04T22:18:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![JessicaHoyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@JessicaHoyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessicaHoyt)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-one-universe-comes-out-of-another-universe-are-there-infiniely-many-universes/747964/1 "2016-03-04T22:18:42Z")

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One theory is that one universe comes out of another. Stephen Hawking has even suggested that blacks holes cause a new universe to form. Once matter is crushed into non existence by a black hole, it more or less becomes matter in another universe. So would there be infinitely many universes, each inside another one, with no real first universe? Or are there a finite number of universes? That’s what’s not clear to me about this theory.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-one-universe-comes-out-of-another-universe-are-there-infiniely-many-universes/747964/2 "2016-03-04T22:24:35Z")

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