Understanding our Universe

How large is our universe?

Earth lives in the MILKY WAY GALAXY...

The Milky Way is about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km (about 100,000 light years) across. One light year is 10064 earth years.

So, can you imagine how long it would take to cross our galaxy?  100X10,064=1,006,400 YEARS...  That's a frigging long time.

Now get this, the size of our universe is billions or billions of billions of Milky Way Galaxies across.  AND...  according to the Hubble Telescope, it is still expanding.

According to our religious friends, earth is the only planet in the Universe to having humans living on it which really speaks to the power of God....  In this vast universe of ours, God only created ONE EARTH.

In and of itself, that thinking is extremely foolish and highlights the believer of being intellectually uninformed.

Even if we had enemies on the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy, it would take them 100,000 light years to get here or 10,064 earth years.  That is over 100 centuries.

How advanced do you think we would be in 100 centuries?

For many of us, understanding the size of our universe is difficult, especially when considering that it is still expanding.  AND...  since it is expanding, it must be expanding into SOMETHING...  right?

So, what do you think it is expanding into?