5 Min. Thought
I think what kept me peaceful as a kid is that I felt everything experienced reality. Every organism had it's own truth. I'm sure cartoons and my imagination propelled these ideas. It was something I invested a lot of thought in, just being really quiet and to myself. It's why I felt more comfortable with Buddhism and secretly wanted to switch. (As a devout Christian, that was some forbidden shit for me, lol.)
I felt life was never ending and even now I feel like my life is being continued. My aunt's words "you've been here before," may have hit me just a little too affectingly. I've sensed this continuation, I thought about real consequences, and I looked at life as an elaborate project. Aging is great. Learning is purpose.
Now that the idea of time has been a steady theme on my mind. I look at life as never-ending. Time is a self-induced plague due to consciousness. Our surroundings are infinite. Perhaps life itself has no true beginning or ending. Looking at the properties in our surroundings inclines me to think so, studying light and the electromagnetic spectrum; the mystery of the black hole and the fact that it's a process and not a true ending.
Or, maybe it's my imagination.
Largest Named Number
name Alex
status student
grade 4-5
location NE
Question - What is the largest named number?
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There is no "biggest" number -- I recognize you understand
that. The web site:
http://www.math.com/tables/general/numnotation.htm
gives the common names of very large and very small numbers. For
reference: a "googol" is a "1" followed by 100 zeros, and a
"googolplex" is "1" followed by a "googol" of zeros. That, according
to the web site I found is the largest named number, but that is
very artificial, because you can easily construct a larger number of
a "1" followed by a "googolplex"of zeros, and you could name it a
"googolgoogolplex" -- and you could repeat this procedure indefinitely.
Vince Calder
I felt life was never ending and even now I feel like my life is being continued. My aunt's words "you've been here before," may have hit me just a little too affectingly. I've sensed this continuation, I thought about real consequences, and I looked at life as an elaborate project. Aging is great. Learning is purpose.
Now that the idea of time has been a steady theme on my mind. I look at life as never-ending. Time is a self-induced plague due to consciousness. Our surroundings are infinite. Perhaps life itself has no true beginning or ending. Looking at the properties in our surroundings inclines me to think so, studying light and the electromagnetic spectrum; the mystery of the black hole and the fact that it's a process and not a true ending.
Or, maybe it's my imagination.
Largest Named Number
name Alex
status student
grade 4-5
location NE
Question - What is the largest named number?
-----------------------------------------
There is no "biggest" number -- I recognize you understand
that. The web site:
http://www.math.com/tables/general/numnotation.htm
gives the common names of very large and very small numbers. For
reference: a "googol" is a "1" followed by 100 zeros, and a
"googolplex" is "1" followed by a "googol" of zeros. That, according
to the web site I found is the largest named number, but that is
very artificial, because you can easily construct a larger number of
a "1" followed by a "googolplex"of zeros, and you could name it a
"googolgoogolplex" -- and you could repeat this procedure indefinitely.
Vince Calder