"If confirmed, this will be an exciting way of probing the ultimate structure of the universe and perhaps even the multiverse," Kashlinsky says. "But you have to check and recheck."

"If this thing is confirmed and it is real, it will be incredibly important," says Aguirre, "on the same order of discovery as the realisation that those little smudges on the sky are other galaxies. The most important thing it would tell us is that the standard picture is broken in some way. And the most exciting thing it could tell us is that there are other universes." If it does, space and time will open up to reveal a reality that is so much bigger than we know. When that happens, those claustrophobia-stricken cosmologists will finally be able to breathe easy."

What i find as most interesting is the passion to go beyond the obvious barriers. As i read once in a book series i love, the golden age, even in the size of the universe, a jail is still a jail...

When that happens, those claustrophobia-stricken cosmologists will finally be able to breathe easy."

I don't think so. They will always want to know what is beyond the beyond, and the universe is infinite.