Cosmic scales

As someone with a scientific background I've had training using very big and very small numbers. I can grasp conceptually larger and smaller numbers than the average person.

An average person is capable of visualising around 10 to the 4th power. 10,000. That is one centimetre in a hundred metre dash. Anything else gets treated as a Really Big Number. And Really Big Numbers are all roughly equivalent and the same.

Not.

One light year = 9.461 × 10 to the 15th metres.

Our galaxy is 150,000 light years across. That's on the order of 10 to the 21st metres.

In the Milky Way there are 100 thousand million stars. That's 10 to the 11th stars.

There are 2 trillion galaxies in the known universe. That's 10 to the 12th galaxies.

10 to the 23rd stars.

The observable universe is 93 billion light years. That's 10 to the 11th light years.

That's 10 to the 32nd metres.

I am incapable of visualising the vastness of the universe.

It's the Mother of Really Big Numbers.

All given up by criminals who value power over stupid smelly 🐒 s higher than literally everything.

Pico pittance (10 to the minus 12) doesn't even come close.

And they want you to give it up too. For less than they.

Bear this in mind when dealing with them.

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