But before I share it, let me lay down the ground work:
Did you know that the number of the grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth is roughly comparable to the number of the stars in the known universe? One estimate for the number of the grains of sand is 7.5 x 10(18) - that's 18 zeros!
Yep, 7.5 x 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 of these:
Now, I know we are living in the days of QE’s and looming hyperinflation, but good luck printing that many dollars FED!
When it comes to the number of the stars, one source gives it as being 70 thousand million, million, million. – This number is even greater than the number of the grains of sand by what, roughly ten thousand times? Stars?! In the KNOWN, observable universe!
Now, I can’t verify any of that info myself and, just like the next guy, have to trust someone’s “honest!”, as they give their semi-educated guesstimate. But who is able to adequately disprove that? And so, it sounds about right, I mean believable as far as I’m concerned.
Well, one thing is for certain:
the Universe is pretty darn BIG. And a grain of sand is about the smallest thing my dimming eyesight will detect under normal conditions. So I can kind of understand how the numbers can be comparatively similar. ...sort of...
But here’s what I can’t fathom.
It’s the fact that just 10 drops of water contain roughly the same number of H2O molecules as the number of the stars in the universe. You know, the 70 thousand million, million, million number?..
I can’t imagine or comprehend it, yet it looks like this is the kind of incomprehensible reality that all of us are faced with.
And so, here’s the thought, more like a question, that struck me:
„Maybe, I’ve been taking myself just a tiny bit too seriously?“
What do you guys think?