Don't forget the part where it's constantly expanding. So it's 96B ly so far.

A faster light speed wouldn't make a difference, since she made the universe 96 billion light years wide.

Light speed is a "you must be this clever to participate" barrier to becoming an interstellar species, that's all. Even if it's not breakable, it just means you gotta be able to plan hundreds or thousands of years into the future.

Also the Universe: continues expanding

I mean, have you seen the human back, fuckin psychopath LMAO

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, that's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day. In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand lights years side to side. It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand lights years thick but out by us it's just three thousand lights years wide. We're thirty thousand lights years from galactic central point, we go around every two hundred million years and our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whiz. As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed thereis. So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure, how amazingly unlikely is your birth and pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space because there's bugger all down here on earth.

When the game is open world but no fast travel or mounts.

The universe is actually expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. There's only a finite distance we'd technically be able to travel if we were to leave right now.

This is assuming that the universe is for us. It's probably not for anything, but to the extent that it is for a kind of life, it might not be us.

And sending a space ship at at least a good fraction of light speed to a nearby star uses more energy than our total civilization uses at the moment. We've got some work to do before climbing up the Kardashev scale we're anywhere close to that kind of travel.

"God" doesn't exist in science.

Hear me out. It doesn't even matter that it's 96 billion light-years away if you're traveling at light speed. Because if you can travel at light speed, time would be better Frozen for you relative to earth time.

So if you're in a spaceship traveling at light speed to your destination, it would feel like you gotten there in an instant.

We don't know how big is the universe beyond the observable universe.

Nah, we can bend space. Sam Neill checkmates God.

There is idea in the three body problem novels:

The mere though of that is dreadful to me.

There is no evidence that the Universe is bounded at all. For all we know, it is infinite in spacial dimension.