But then, what gave them the right to expect they could understand everything the universe contained?

Her universe contained only one, the rest were bit players, successful or not.

So a universe an hour, say, ahead of this one will contain the same objects.

One was the discovery that the universe contains no more than three families of matter.

That the universe contains no more than three fundamental types of matter.

To see how it works, imagine a universe containing only three particles.

But his universe contained only two types of good: human and angel.

Was this a fair sample of the intelligence the universe contained?

How much matter and energy does the universe contain?

They were revealed to be alive on in the parallel universe containing "Earth-247".