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I was having trouble making sense of the figures in the article: "three million light-years", "40 billion stars"... So I visited Scale of the Universe [1] to t

I was having trouble making sense of the figures in the article: "three million light-years", "40 billion stars"... So I visited Scale of the Universe [1] to try to get a grip on things. Wonderful site (and music!), but I think it had the opposite of the desired effect. I am now completely numb to any notion of trailing zeros. [1] http://scaleofuniverse.com/ http://scaleofuniverse.com/

lovelearning 8y ago
Your comment reminded me of the Total Perspective Vortex - "the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul" :) [1] https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex