Have you ever sat and tried to conceptualize huge periods of time? I do.

I'm sitting in the library looking out the window looking at a very large hill. Or very tiny mountain. I don't know.

I like to try and grasp how long it took for it to reach the point it is at today, growing little by little over the eons. Imagine entire lifetimes flashing by in the blink of an eye, even then it probably wouldn't look like the hill was growing very fast.

I don't think that humans can really understand numbers of that magnitude. Quick, count to a million (If you want to see a million numbers: http://tinyurl.com/awvwl4). Ok, that's actually not quick, but I'm going somewhere with this.

After you count to a million, do it 1,000 more times. Now you are at a billion. Do that 3 and a half more times and you're at the age of the earth.

4,500,000,000 years
That's 4,500 millions. Jeeeeez.

Still, inconceivable.


I also try to picture infinity in my head. A never ending tunnel of never ending tunnels. It just keeps going, whenever you think you're nearing the end, you're not. You're in the middle, you can't approach infinity.

And then there's stuff like Quantum Entanglement and the Copenhagen Interpretation.


Every once-in-a-while I have to remind myself that I have no bloody idea what's really going on.

Do you?