From: ur-valhalla!clubhouse.email.net!sonny575
Subject: What Are Googolplexes?
Message-ID: <9511031652.S258589641@clubhouse.email.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 16:52:08 CST

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Take a ride to the big:

The mathematical term googol is the number 1 followed by a hundred
zeroes, or 10-100. How big a number is a googol? Over 22 centuries
ago, Archimedes calculated that 10-63 grains of sand would fill the
then-known universe. Consider today's known universe contains at least
a hundred-billion galaxies each containing an average of a hundred-
billion stars. Now consider the mind-boggling number of electrons,
protons, neutrons, and all other particles in those stars, planets,
dark matter, and all other particles of matter and energy throughout
the entire universe. That number would equal 10-86 particles, a number
still considerably less then a googol! Now, if our entire universe of
about fifteen billion light years across were packed solid with
subatomic particles with zero space between them, the number of
particles would rise to 10-130.

A googol is a very large number indeed. But, how large is a
googolplex, 10-10-100?  Just to print the number of zeros after the
number 1 would require enough paper to pack solid our entire universe,
fifteen billion light years across.  ...And a super googolplex is a
googolpex that is raised to an additional 100th power.  No scale is
available for any conscious mind on Earth to grasp such a number.


Now take a ride to the small:

Slice an average-sized pie in half ninthy-one times. On the ninety-
second slice, you would need to slice the nucleus of an atom in half.
How small is the nucleus of an atom? Enlarge a baseball to the size of
Earth. One would then see the atoms of that baseball as the size of
cherries filling the entire planet. Now, enlarge one of those atoms to
the size of the Astrodome. The nucleus would then become visible as
the size of a grain of sand.

What about the smallest or shortest unit of time that the human mind
can grasp:  Plank's time of 10-42 of a second....the time required for
light travelling at 186,281 miles per second to traverse the diameter
of the smallest subatomic notion of, say, a 2x10-33 centimeter
diameter, which is Plank's length. A time less than 10-43 of a second
measured from the hypothetical beginning of our universe cannot be
experimentally simulated or conceptually grasped. (In reality, the
universe has no beginning or end.)

Finally, grasping the smallest and the biggest in terms of eternity
requires the axiomatic fact that EXISTENCE EXISTS. Thus, existence has
no prior causes and is eternal. Relative to eternity, the smallest
unit and the largest unit are equal in occurance, time, or distance.
For example, compare an incredibly fast event that occurs once every
10-42 of a second to an incredibly slow event that occurs once every
super googolplex years. The occurrence of those events are equal in
eternity. For, both of those events have occured and will occur an
infinite number of times in eternity.

The smallest units of existence, such as quarks or the even smaller
Gravity Units, to the largest expansion of the universe with
everything in between and beyond are all a part of eternal existence:
Gravity Units, quarks, subatomic particles and energies; protons,
neutrons, and electrons; electromagnetism, nuclear forces, and
gravity; universes, galaxies, stars, and planets; atoms, molecules,
and compounds; gasses, liquids, and solids; air, water, and land;
mountains, oceans, and clouds; protoplasm, amoeba, plants, fish,
animals, primates, and conscious beings...all are part of existence
and its natural evolutions that have occured eternally.



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