“But if the universe was designed with us in mind, why is it so incredibly vast?” I asked. “There’s a lot of empty space out there. Isn’t that wasteful and unnecessary?” “Because the universe was designed for discovery, we need something to discover,” Richards replied. “The universe is vast and we’re small, but we have access to it. That’s what is amazing. We can see background radiation that has come from more than ten billion light years away.”
