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Universe age Vs size
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Maybe I'm just being hopelessly anthropomorphic here, but it always feels to me like the universe is a lot more ‘big’ than it is ‘old’

I'm aware that the universe has a very, very long time left and that we find ourselves right at the start by necessity, since most of that future period will be cold and empty (my favourite Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future )

..and I'm also aware that space and time are basically two sides of the same thing so perhaps it's a slightly meaningless question.

BUT:

The scale of the universe - room for at least 100 billion galaxies each with 100 billion stars, and unimaginable emptiness between each one of them - fills me with much more awe than its duration so far of 14 billion years, which somehow feels a more manageable concept (despite clearly still being a huge expanse of time).

Maybe this is just a point about humans and how we conceptualise space and time though.

Does this resonate with anyone else though?

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