We need a new verse...
for the Monty Python song that describes the size of the universe from the movie "The Meaning of Life". They've just produced the best measure yet of the size of the universe, and
we're 156 Billion light-years wide. That's about 1.5 x 10^27 meters or 10^16 astronomical units. That's pretty damn big.
It is larger than the estimated age of the universe (13.7 billion years) because of the expansion period in the early universe. But at least now we have an upper bound on the number of orders of magnitude there are in the spatial dimensions: from the upper bound listed above to the lower bound of the Planck scale is about 60 orders of magnitude; three quarters of those orders of magnitudes are below the human (1 meter) scale.
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