It’s reasonable to compare the number of stars in the visible sky to the number of grains of sand in the average sandbox. Considering this, or the fact that the planets and stars operate on such an inconceivably long timeline that human life accounts for little more than a blip, it’s not difficult to feel insignificant. Especially when we realize that one day the sun will extinguish, the universe will continue to expand to the point where life as we know it cannot be sustained anymore, and everything will come to an end.

It was once a great comfort to know that we occupied the center of the universe – even heretical to state otherwise. But when the early astronomers had proven that the earth rotates around the sun, our place in the galaxy seemed at once unimportant. Some argue though that it’s not our location in the universe that is important; it’s the unique position from which we can experience it. Because the universe is finite and boundless, like a globe, any point can be viewed as the center with all points leading back to that one spot: the center of the universe.