So that means we can postulate the Universe is: 117,313,920,000,000,000,000,000 miles in it's...circumference? Or would it be diameter?
That would be circumference. Diameter is how wide a circle is. Circumference is the distance that would be traveled in one complete circuit of it.
I hated geometry, always svcked at it. Either way, thats pretty small actually, I always figured the universe was much bigger then a number that size. Expected at least 10-15 more zeroes behind it. (186,000 x 60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 365 days x 200,000,000,000, right?, Or am I missing a calculation somewhere?)
That's not the size of the universe, just the size of the circle light would travel from the sun and back. Don't forget that gravity affects light. The trajectory of a beam of light traveling away from the sun will be altered every time it goes through a gravitational field, no matter how small. It's estimated that a beam of light would encounter enough gravitation fields to turn it in a complete circle in about 200 billion years. Sometimes it might take longer, sometimes shorter, sometimes the light might even get svcked into a black hole and never complete the journey. And sometimes it might hit fields that would pull it back and forth with varying strengths and keep it from turning around at all. The actual diameter of the
observable universe (just what we can see of it) is estimated to be 93 billion light years.