How large is the universe?

CharlieZ · 70-79, M

To make this question have some sense, please drop (at least) some meaningeless "common sense" fictions:
- That space is an "empty" volume, Euclidian container that pre existed matter.
- That haves a "center" and "borders".

Taking arbitrarily Earth as a viewpoint (as if was the inexistent center of an inexistent sphere), best estimations say it´s about 93 billion light-years (28 billion parsecs).

eMortal · M

@CharlieZ all those distance make one think, who or what are we, really? And fact that we exist in an unexceptional geolocation is mind boggling. We're not at the center of anything lol. Just some dot in the Solar system. A tiny little detail in the universe.

CharlieZ · 70-79, M

@eMortal True, to a certain extent.

But what is alse amazing is that we, those little ones, wonder, ask, and sometimes answer what our ancestors could not even imagine few centuries and even few decades ago.
We are a curious and, in some sense, in front of such so big scenario, a corageous species.

Sons of Prometeus.