Why would you compare our universe to a creation of a human beings, such as a number?
Numbers are really just descriptions of things which already exist anyway, plus, they can give us an idea of how big or small or fast something is, etc. That’s how I see it anyway.
The universe may indeed be gigantic but so are we. Imagine you were hydrogen nucleus saying exactly the same thing about a human being.
First there’s the electrons which are tiny but very far away from the nucleus, then then there’s an oxygen atom conjoined with this hydrogen atom and another hydrogen atom on the other side of that. Then, there is a HUGE number of this H20 molecules that make up a human being. I just wish I still knew mass conversions; I’d be able to give you a relatively accurate number of water molecules within the average human body.
My point is that we are immensely huge structures of particles. Trillions of them. Yes, we may be tiny in comparison to the universe, but we are gigantic compared to the atoms and molecules which make up the universe. It all depends from what angle you look at it all.
Interesting fact here:
The base molecular structure for life on Earth is just one combination of the atoms which make it up. There are actually more combinations possible of those particles than there are electrons in the visible universe. That’s a pretty massive number. So you could say it’s unlikely that we’re alone, but is it really? We don’t know enough about what is required for life to answer that question just yet.
Conclusion:
We are both immensely huge 4(+)dimensional structures and tiny, insignificant little specs within the greater universe. We may not be alone in the universe but it is as equally plausible as there being other life out there similar to us.
If we are the only self aware entities in the universe, that’s a whole lot of universe for seemingly nothing. But without awareness in the universe, it would be as insignificant as we are. If a universe exists without life, does it? (A variation of “If a tree falls in the forest…”)
Could’ve explained a lot of that quite a bit better, I think, but I haven’t got my brain in gear today. I love this topic, though; I spend far too much time thinking about the universe.
Two final things to mention:
String theory and the multiverse.
Vibrating strings could be the things that create the fundamental particles of our universe. I like this because it almost means that we and everything in the universe are grand symphonies performed by the enormous string orchestra of the universe.
Our universe may be one of many within a multiverse. There may be parallel universes for every decision we make and for every event where more than one outcome is possible. That means for every event throughout all of time there could’ve been a huge amount of universes created and, of course, that still continues to happen (if the many-worlds theory is true).
Many worlds would definately confirm that there is other life out there. First, there would be other versions of ourselves and then there’s bound to be other universes containing different life. It would even be the case that there’d be universes with no life at all. An ENTIRE UNIVERSE with noone to witness it. To me that seems like a waste which is why I enjoy thoughts about predeterminism rather than the many-worlds theory.
If there were many worlds, why am I this version of me and not another? Are we all aware, in which case does consciousness divide, or does my conscious mind choose a certain path through the multiverse?
At school, we went on a field trip to a Space Station. They said that the astronauts will start making a small civilization on the moon, conducting experiments and stuff.
They showed a CGI movie where there was a giant bubble thing, and some small buildings. I think it would only five or six people living there, probably only a month at a time…
But, I think it will be about 20 years until they actually start this…
i think its funny how we are so excited about colonizing our moon. Although it is a big leap for us, its just our moon
Why shouldn’t we be excited? If we do put a colony on the moon it will be the first group of people to live on another world (for lack of a better word). It’s quite a massive leap.
Also I feel that if the moon were aware of your remarks, it would be insulted having been called “JUST our moon”. It may be just our moon to you but the moon is responsible for a lot on our planet. The tides and waves, movements within the atmosphere. It’s even partially responsible for all life on Earth. It’s done a lot for us and it continues to do much for us so I think it deserves a little more respect.
I don’t know a lot more about our moon but I know we definately should be excited about putting our first colony of people up there. It is “just” our moon, yes, but we’re not exactly so advanced that it shouldn’t be exciting. Maybe in a thousand years when we’re sending our first mission to another solar system it won’t be so impressive but at the time being it’s a major forthcoming event.
And beyond visiting other stars and even galaxies, perhaps one day we’ll be visiting other universes. Maybe even then there will be someone who says, “I think its funny how we are so excited about visiting another universe. Although it is a big leap for us, its just another universe.”
I have no idea what could possibly make the thought of visiting another universe seem unimpressive but such a thing could exist. Maybe we’ll discover negative-universes or perhaps there will be something larger than the multiverse… Multi-multiverse? … Negative-poly-multiverse? … Super-negative-poly-multiverse?? A supernegapolymultiverse. 
No matter how advanced we get, I doubt the human race will ever become so technologically superior so that we can break the natural laws of the universe, (nothing can travel past the speed of light).
Even if we could go near the speed of light, after merely a day of traveling at those speeds, time would have passed by so quickly that Earth probably wouldn’t even still exist!!
Yet people still try to design machines with perpetual motion and people still believe we may be able to achieve cold fusion. I think that maybe one day we will find a way to break the speed of light. Perhaps not in the classical sense of travelling through space-time at a certain speed but by finding a way to harness the potential of strings. Is it not possible that if we crack string theory we could use the principle of entanglement (with great difficulty) to travel from one point in space-time to another instantaneously*?
- Potentially (if my logic isn’t greatly flawed) this could send us to any point in time as well as space as they are both part of the same thing, space-time. Although the traveller would experience the journey instantaneously an exterior observer may have to wait or they could even witness the traveller arrive before they even depart. Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking: “PARADOX!!!” But that’s not neccesarily true. Depending on the nature of time, there are ways in which this could happen without being paradoxical.
Huge, my definition of it changed when i read up on something i had not heard of before, the Virgo SuperCluster after that i realised just how inconcievably huge this universe is.