;)One ‘googol’ year, is how much? It is the current age of the Universe, one billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion billion times over. Squeeze the entire history of our Universe into the thickness of a rand note, and one-googol years would give you a pile of money that reaches one hundred quadrillion, quadrillion, quadrillion, quadrillion, light years high. It would not even fit into a universe a billion, billion, billion, times larger than our own immense universe. How small fleeting and insignificant we are we are?
One googol year. That’s truly staggering. Beyond anything, a human can comprehend. Nevertheless, infinitely small when compared to eternity. If a small bird sharpened its beak on the peak of mount Everest, once every zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion,, zillion, zillion, zillion, zillion ,zillion, google years, When the mountain is completely worn down, the first moment of eternity would not yet have occurred.

The largest number used by humanity is, however the unimaginably large googleplex or

One google year to the power of a hundred. After even this enormous time has past eternity has still not yet began.

If we want t look at smaller time periods, the fairly long computer time period  of pico second is thus; A pico second is what a second is to 32 000 years. Yes thirty two thousand years. But on the time scale of the internet giant, it is a very long time indeed. Time is thus an allusion relative to the observer

Alan

Makes one think does it not!
Alan

It does induce alot of deep thinking. Now, ponder how the universe can go on forever and just imagine the very egdes of it but what does it go into? Nothing? Is nothing possible?

If you start to think about things like this your head will hurt, trust me!  ;)

Pat

Hello I'm new. Yes this kind of thinking can drive you to madness. :o I just have to know. Death doesn't seem that bad if we can just acquire the understanding required to know the answer.

Yet Alan, this is only but a pittance in our view of what physical reality is. Time, mass, energy, space....Is there not just so much more that what has been mentioned.....so infinite. Yet once we leave this plane of existence...will it not become in all reality just a speck of nothingness and as insignificant as a moment in time?
Joe

Hello Shaun,

The arrow of time moves in one direction from present to future in the material physical universe. The universe will not exist forever but either goes through a cycle of destruction and creation or heat death in the far future.

When we pass over into the afterlife, we become like god dwelling as non-energetic spiritual being outside time and space in the ever changing now

alan