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IIRC, if you actually went out one end of the universe eventually you'd come back around from the other side, so a hidden teleport wouldn't be out of place. Except that the universe is expanding faster than you can travel, so more precisely you'd just make the terrain moving and keep it moving out faster than the player can fly.

 

I could imagine a movie where you hit the walls of the universe ... sort of like Erik the Viking when their ship reached the end of the world and fell off (also Baron Manchausen & Pirates o.t.C). And the Truman show's climax was similar; just an unexpected *bump*, huh?.

 

It also reminds me of Aristotle's argument for the universe being infinite. If it wasn't, you'd eventually hit a wall; but for there to be a wall there'd have to be the other side of the wall, and you could move the wall back to there; you can repeat that ad infinitim, so the universe must be infinite.

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

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Fidcal

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Probably though not precisely. I've not read much scifi since the computer age began though. Related movies: 13th Floor, Dark City. In both of those the hero gets to the end of the built area, effectively the edge. And of course Matrix.

 

But back to the particular 'skybox around the solar system' theme - setting the speed of light spawnarg would be a useful way to restrict players from going beyond the build. It's a bit like player clip when you think about it.

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