Four ‘Universes’

This chart made by Toby Ord shows four things:

• Everything we can observe now is the ‘observable universe’.

• Everything we can ever observe if we stay here is the ‘eventually observable universe’.

• Everything we can ever observe if we send spacecraft out in every direction at all speeds slower than light is the ‘ultimately observable universe’.

• Everything those spacecraft can ever affect is the ‘affectable universe’.

His chart is drawn in funny coordinates where a galaxy at rest moves st...