If you take a standard deck of cards And you shuffle that deck And you look at the order that deck is in, You have just seen a combination of those cards never before seen in the universe. The amount of ways to shuffle a deck of cards is 8.06e67 That is an 8 with 67 more numbers after it That number is astronomical There are more ways to shuffle a deck of 52 cards, Then there are seconds in the age of the universe (13.8 Billion Years) There are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards Then there are grains of sand on all the planets in our galaxy.
This number is difficult to comprehend. Let's scale it back
1000 seconds, is 16 and a half minutes. 10,000 seconds is 2.7 hours. 100,000 seconds is a little over a day 1,000,000 seconds is 11 and a half days
Let's make a jump
1,000,000,000 seconds is 32 years Let that sink in
That number is huge. 32 years is a long time But that number is tiny.
1 Trillion seconds is 321 millennium.
Funny how big things can get. Think about this next number A Googol. A googol is a 1 followed by 100 zeros. We can do better.
A Googolplex is a 1 followed by a googol of zeros That is 10^10^100
The point of these numbers is not to show how big things can get But it's about how small we actually are. We as humans think we are the leaders of the universe We think we know most of what there is. 96% of the universe is unexplored. Hell, 95% of the Earths oceans are unexplored. We really don't know very much