The value of a googol
Humans have existed for 300,000 years.
The earth for 4,500,000,000.
The universe is 13,800,000,000 year old. Eventually, it will fall into a perpetual coma of absolute zero: frigid, lifeless, limply stable, what scientists call the Big Freeze. This should happen in approximately a googol years, or 10^100, give or take a few gazillion.
1 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 years is a googol.
That’s some big-picture context.
