Time

It's not very often that someone makes you think of something in a genuinely new way. But it happened just the other day. A good friend was musing about his place in the universe. He was distressed by the idea that humans are so infinitesimally small in the face of cosmic scale, and that their lives are so ephemeral. Then something occurred to him.

Amongst the earth's population of roughly 6,377,641,642 souls, the average age is about 26.5 years. That means that our collective "life experience" is something like 169 billion years. The universe, by contrast, is a mere 11.2 billion to 20 billion years old.

My friend thought it significant that, relative to the cosmos, humans occupy so little physical space, but that we hold, within our collective experience, such an overwhelming amount of time.

I thought you should know.