How big is a googol? One way to look at it.

[CrimsonAegis]

So, how big exactly is a googol? For reference, a googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

One googol of gold atoms would take up a volume of:

201,281,078,471,782,148,519,669 cubic lightyears

Or, a cube 58,604,952 lightyears on a side.

For reference, the Milky Way galaxy is ~100,000 lightyears across.

And, the Local Group is ~10,000,000 lightyears across.



So, how did I figure this out?

First, some basic definitions:
One mole = 6.0221415 ? 10e23, or Avogadros number
One mole of gold atoms weighs 196.9665 g, which occupies 10.2 cubic centimeters.
10.2 cc > 0.62244 cubic in > 3.602e-4 cubic feet > 2.447e-15 cubic miles > 1.212e-53 cubic lightyears


So, one centillion divided by one mole = 1.66x10e76
1.66x10e76 moles of gold multiplied by { 1.212e-53 cubic lightyears per mole of gold} = 201,351,148,671,519,837,423,092 cubic lightyears of gold per googol of gold atoms, or, a cube of gold 58604952 lightyears on a side.

 

[MrFightinBrownies]

wat?

 

[Metatron]

The chances of any of this mattering in our lifetime is 1 in a googolplex.

We better come up with some good worm holes or people will be dead 1000 years from now before they can meet their relatives on the other side of the local group....

wat?

Physics, calculus, etc. Most people don't even know what a googol or a googolplex is (infinity). This is a math/science geek topic.

 

[Frank Booth]

Googleplex is not infinity. Infinity cannot be defined, although you can have countable infinities, like the integers, and uncountable infinities like the real numbers between 0 and 1. Which it turns out there are more real numbers between 0 and 1 then there are integers.

 

[Metatron]

Googleplex is not infinity.

Googleplex now huh?

Well at least a Googleplex would be limited. We wouldn't want Google to take over the universe would we?

 

[Frank Booth]

Googleplex now huh?

Well at least a Googleplex would be limited. We wouldn't want Google to take over the universe would we?

You know what i meant, just too late for me to spell it right. !argh

 

[Metatron]

Well I wouldn't worry, the Googleplex is already happening with Google Chrome !chair

I actually really like the term 'Googleplex'. if they become a monopoly it's a better way to call the company what it is then M$ for Microsoft.

 

[Gen.LeeAwesome]

woooow.that pretty big.i would have never thoguht about that

 

[FatalSinz]

So, i tried to look through a couple links in wiki about galaxies about a question im wanting to have the answer to. Maybe someone can answer it for me.

What is in a galaxy?

 

[Major Payne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy

Well as that says, it is a system consisting of stars.

To put it into closer terms to Earth, Earth is in the "Milky Way" Galaxy. Our sun is one of those stars in the galaxy, and our solar system revolves around our star.

Here's a little chart thing of largest to smallest:

1. the Virgo Supercluster - A galactic supercluster that contains the Local Group (refer to #2)
2. the Local Group - the Local Group is a group of galaxies that includes our galaxy, the Milky Way. Over 35 galaxies in the Local Group.
3. Milky Way Galaxy - This contains our solar system, the sun being the star in the galaxy.
4. Solar System - This contains the sun and everything that revolves around it (us)
5. Earth - You.

 

[2 F 4 B P]

My head hurts. I think this gave me diabetes D:

 

[Major Payne]

Ooh that sucks :/

 

[The Big Herm]

I am so lost.

 

[R.E.D]

Don't get impressed he looked it up on Google.

 

[e MpTy]

I think you have way to much time to yourself lmao!