Space ain't what it used to be

According to the Big Bang theory, some day in ancient history, the entire universe simply exploded from one ridiculously subatomic particle (nevermind what was outside that particle at the time - we don’t know and we don’t want to know). As theories go, this one is fairly well supported and agreed upon by those who see meaning in astronomical numbers.

An article I grabbed from digg says that:

In 2003, researchers announced that, with WMAP [Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe] data, they were able to capture a snapshot of the primordial universe and ascertained its age to be approximately 13.7 billion years old.

When I read that, my first thought was “that’s it?” When you think about it, there’s a lot of stuff that has to happen between Big Bang and Today for me to be sitting here posting to my blog.

Of course, 13.7 billion is a fairly huge number of years. But I think the fact that there are 23 people in the world who have more dollars than there are years in the life of the universe is what’s throwing me off.