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 If you're like me and you believe the wackos at NASA, chances are you buy into the theory that the universe is constantly expanding. While its impossible to know by exactly what degree, astronomers believe it to be at a rate of 70.8 (km/sec)/Megaparsec, driven primarily by (a very cool sounding) dark energy.
While it's unscientific, for all intents and purposes of this article, we can say the universe is growing to infinity (or at least, really, really big).
Since infinity is infinity no matter the unit, lets say we're measuring in units of human. You are, effectively, 1 in an enormously vast system. In a map of the universe, earth is but a speck, and you are a speck on that speck.
Isn't it amazing some people think they are the center of it all?
There are also theories that at one point, growth will slow and perhaps even become a contraction. What then when things go crashing in all around the center?
Also kinda makes you think life must be out there somewhere...
Source for data: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_expansion.html
Note that this is my attempt to think phylosophically. This may be a fail for you, but it usually gets me in a fairly somber place.
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