Everyone know the economic crisis visited upon us by those greedy wanker bankers is huge. But, really, how big is it in relation to the scale of the universe? We all know that the universe has extremely small values as well as extremely large values. But one thing in common is that these values are extreme - lots of zeroes. Think Pearl Harbour, then multiply those zeroes by a gazillion. Hang on anything into zero is still zero, but you get my drift.Government's casually talk in the trillions of dollars for bail-out packages. Just how much is tens of trillions of dollars in the grand scheme of the universe?
| Exteme Values | Scale |
| The age of our universe - approx 15 billion years old | 10,000,000,000 |
| Number of stars in our galaxy (Milky Way) | 100,000,000,000 |
| The length of a light year | 1,000,000,000,000 |
| Bail out package- talking trillions of dollars | 10,000,000,000,000 |
| Total number of living cells in a human body | 100,000,000,000,000 |
| The radius of an electron | 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 |
| Number of stars in our universe | 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
| Plancks constant, probably the samllest number in quantum mechanics | 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 |
Not bad eh? We should first take off our hats to those wanker bankers before we take a couple of baseball bats to them.
