A Conversation for Googol - an Unimaginably Large Number
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
Vestboy II not playing the Telegram Game at U726319 Started conversation Mar 2, 2004
I thought I could cope - somehow - with the concept of infinity or eternity in the sense that you don't have to put a value to it. Then someone too clever by half asks me to think about a googol. All the cake icing balls you can eat and then some... The very thought of laying all these balls along the M25 to a height of 1 metre. And where were they kept before you started laying them? And don't even worry about that because someone is busy hollowing out the planet to fit more of them just to show you how useless laying them along the M25 was.
And if you thought a planetful was enough, pshah, that's a gnat's speck on a whale's bottom of a whiff of an atom of how big this is.
Have a heart!
Cracking entry Grommit!
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
Vestboy II not playing the Telegram Game at U726319 Posted Mar 2, 2004
*lowers eyebrow*
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
5th Earth (speaker to the void) Posted Mar 3, 2004
Just don't think about a googolplex... If you take every one of those silver balls filling the universe, and make every one of them a universe itself, and then empty and refill every one of those universe-balls the proverbial "once a second" for 4,000 years, then you end up with a googolplex.
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted Posted Mar 3, 2004
How do you think i felt - I had to sub it!! I tried not to think about it but couldn't
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
Vestboy II not playing the Telegram Game at U726319 Posted Mar 3, 2004
The uncanny thing about this is that I can handle the idea of fitting a universe into a cake icing ball much more easlily than I can handle the idea of a big number... Could someone pass me the sherry?
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
kailasham Posted Apr 5, 2006
Talking of infinity we must bear in our mind that infinity is a concept and not a number
Keeping this in mind we can safely say that whatever large number you take,there is another number more than that
Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
mamuomar Posted Mar 13, 2008
infinity can seem smaller because its a concept
but it has no limit so it is no number, wheras the googol is finite
i reckon ur heads saying
all are one and one is all
hope that helps
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Infinity seems smaller than a googol - why?
- 1: Vestboy II not playing the Telegram Game at U726319 (Mar 2, 2004)
- 2: Gnomon - time to move on (Mar 2, 2004)
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- 4: 5th Earth (speaker to the void) (Mar 3, 2004)
- 5: Mort - a middle aged Girl Interrupted (Mar 3, 2004)
- 6: Jexai (Mar 3, 2004)
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