Originally Posted By: Bill
Then we put all these "snapshots" together and see a universe that is moving and evolving with time.


That's more or less Julian Barbour's take on reality, which, to some extent, I like.

Regarding the idea that the cosmos might be greater than the Universe; I could really have expressed the same thought by saying that there is more to the universe than we can observe, and that we need something to enable us to make sense of it.

There never was nothing.