xVikingson t1_iud07r0 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 12:05 PM

Not to feed your astrophobia... But even the distance our voyager 1 is currently from earth, never to return, not to touch or even see physical astronomical bodies for at least the coming million years.. is already unfathomable for the human mind.. the kind of scales you're currently describing are actually Unfathomable to the power of a million.

k1lky t1_iudb44c wrote on October 30, 2022 at 1:48 PM

One of the books in the four-volume set "The World of Mathenatics" (ca. 1950's?) tells of a junior high school math class conjuring the number "google" as the number of raindrops falling on Brooklyn in an hour of steady rain, and a "googleplex" as a google raised to the google power. Mind: POW!