(March 18, 2016 at 10:38 am)Alex K Wrote: And now consider that there is absolutely no reason to think that the universe stops anywhere near our current horizon. The size of the observable universe is just an accidental limitation. It is almost certainly many orders of magnitude bigger.
Yep, all 7 billion living now, and all who have lived in the past, and all who will live until our extinction, are a very tiny blip on the cosmic scale in the cosmic time frame.