How Big Is The Cosmic Soccer Ball?

I think your 4.35 x 10^23 miles is correct (perhaps several percent low)and perimeter is more correct than circumfrence if it is 20 sided (I'm skeptical)
If a triillon miles of string weighes one KG; that is one nano-gram per mile; the total weight of the string is 435 billion KG = 435 million metric tons. Neil

Good analogy, but I don't feel any closer to knowing what 74 billion light years looks like. Once an object is too heavy for me to lift with or without aid, the enormity of the weight is beyond my grasp.

So far, I think I like the New York to Tokyo measurement the best if it is accurate. That concept I find much easier to relate to my life experiences.

Another thing that confuses me in the article is the notion that the universe is made up of a 12-sided mirror-like shape and that what we think of as an infinite universe is actually a distortion of the reflected light of nearby galaxies.



To believe that the infinite universe is actually a distortion of the light of nearby galaxies, wouldn't you also have to believe that the Milky Way is at the center of the universe? If the Milky Way is not at the center of the universe, wouldn't there be an awful lot of reflections that just don't intersect the location of Earth?

in a recent article/report on space.com it states that the universe is 156Billion Light Years wide
or slightly larger....
heres the link
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_040524.html

If your space craft averages 3 trillion miles per year = 1/2 light speed; it will take 148 trillion years to travel the 74 trillion light years. Neil

It's a damn big soccer ball. And a child God kicks it around.

yes indeed