[BikerNYC]

To think of how insignificant we are in the realm of the whole creation!

Or to think how insignificant all of creation is. If you spread everything out to a uniform density, you would only have a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

Indeed, inflationary cosmology calculates that the universe could have started with about 20 pounds of matter and a Higgs field in a very small space. When the field finally settled into its lowest possible non-zero value, it released its pent-up energy to create the matter we see today.

[queenkathy]

This is probably a really technical question here. But you seem up to it! "They" say that our universe is expanding all the time. How fast? and How far?

[NicknamedBob]

"...could have started with about 20 pounds of matter and a Higgs field in a very small space."

I knew it. Probably some grungy picnic cooler blown off a passing pickup truck.