There is a petition on Facebook to define the number prefix for 1027 as “Hella.” Yeah, that’s a big number: a one followed by 27 zeros, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Coincidentally, the universe is estimated to be 0.88 hella-meters across. That’s hella big, almost… ;-)
To explore how big that really is, take a look at the Scale of the Universe.
Update. Okay, that wasn’t very clear. The number 1027 already has a name; it’s octillion. Hella would be the number prefix for an octillion units, like kilo is the prefix for a thousand units. In other works, an octillion meters would be 1 hella-meters. I edited the post to clarify.
Hat tip: All Facebook.
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3 responses to “The Universe is Hella Big, Almost…”
So that implies the universe has an end….what does the end look like? What is beyond the end?
There are space monsters there (and a brick wall). ;-)
Is that similar to the wall between San Diego and Tijuana?