The Spanstrom - A Cosmological Dimension

Now let us move helter-skelter to a dramatic conclusion.
Sir Fred Hoyle, Frontiers Of Astronomy, p. 339

The species of Man, if it is to realize its full potential in the Universe, must get over it's self.  We must start to face up to our limitations and realize that being a really smart ape with a big stick  (dick?) is just not going to cut it for much longer. In all the astronomy and cosmology texts that I have read so far has no dimension for man in context to his place in the Universe.

NGC 6302 - The Butterfly

The Oracle of Ottawa, as a public service to his world wide readership, has decided to remedy the situation. We have all heard of the angstrom that is a unit of length equal to 10⁻¹⁰ m  or one ten-billionth of a metre, it is used to measure very small things. My unit is called the spanstrom, that is a non dimensional unit of time and space, compared to the average mans life. For the calculations in this post, our "unit life" will be equal to 83 human years, or 83 trips around the sun of our solar system.

The highest score you can achieve is 1.00. This is scored to the man who seriously believes that that the universe started when he was born and will end when he expires.  i.e. 83/83 = 1.00

Now assume that the man was a very big fan of Bishop Usher, whose date of the creation was October 23, 4004BC. Now add 2015 years and you get 6,019 years. The fundamentalist creationist will have a spanstrom value 83/6,019 = 0.0137 

Now let us continue with some values that would pretain to a thinking man. Let us first try the earliest value for the Hubble length. The figure 1.2 Billion light years comes to mind. This would gave a spanstrom value of 6.1967 x 10^-8.

Of course as time went on the Hubble Length tended to get longer. For a Hubble Length of about 5.0 billion light years the spanstrom value is now 1.66 x 10^-8.

For todays Hubble Length of 13.8 billion years, the spanstom value is 6.0145 x 10^-9.

Then there is that circumference figure that I believe is 93 billion years. This will give a spanstrom value of 8.9247 x 10^-10.

If you look up the number of stars in a galaxy in Wikipedia, the number at the time of this writing is 
100 billion, The value of the spanstrom of the number of stars in just one galaxy compared to an ordinary mans lifetime you will get a spanstrom value of  8.30 x 10^-10.

At the time of this writing the suspected number of galaxies in the observable universe is 400 billion, this gives a spanstrom value of 2.075 x 10^-10.

So now we can come to our conclusion. And that is that as man finds out more about his universe and it's unimaginable vastness the value of his significance tends to zero.... Sorry about that.