... wherever or whenever you go.
Wherever and whenever are the same thing in my model. We're all just patterns in the light. No matter where you go there you are.
If you go 20 billion years in any direction (including time), this universe looks the same. By our current perception it would still look like there was some "beginning," a big bang maybe. But that beginning may be an illusion.
Other models are much smaller, starting hot and ending cold. Or they are cyclic.
Alas "faster than light" travel and time travel are impossible in this universe, and more to the point, this universe doesn't care what humans think. The universe will go on doing its own thing with or without us.
Most of us have gotten past the idea that the earth is the center of the universe and that everything up in the sky revolves around us, but very few of us are willing to accept we are not the center of time. Without a "now" to grasp onto, what is the meaning of our lives?
When earth was the center of creation and the universe was very small, with some god watching it all spinning around like a proud clock maker, it was much easier to feel like we were important. After all, we humans were created in god's image. It says so in a book.
It's much more difficult to establish our own meanings in a universe that's very large, extending beyond the 13.8 billion years we can observe.
How small are we? Here's some galaxies:
Not stars, galaxies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Observatories_Origins_Deep_Survey
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