Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Dec 17 2024 - Under the Microscope

 

Things in the science news are quite astonishing.  Here's an item:  The world's fastest microscope was introduced in August 2024.  It snaps images at attoseconds.  That is a billionth of a billionth of a second.  It is called attomicroscopy.  That means they can see things no one else has seen before.   It is described HERE at Science News. 

I had to look up attosecond.  Here's the definition: 
An attosecond is equal to 10^-18 or 1/1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (one quintillion) of a second. It is an extremely short pulse of light, lasting 0.000000000000000001 of a second. Attosecond physics allows scientists to study the very smallest particles at the very shortest timescales

We are just getting used to billions with the rich billionaires in the world.  Next will come trillions - again the stuff of budgets and stock evaluations.  I wonder when we  will we read the first quintillion?

There currently are no quintillionaires.  How could someone become a quintillionaire?  
  • build a galactic corporate empire
  • invent matter replication
  • discover infinite energy
  • own the first general artificial superintelligence
What would a quintillionaire do with that money?
  • buy the entire planet earth - we are only worth $300 trillion now
  • purchase 16 million tons of gold at $60 billion per ton
  • give every human on earth over $100,000 
  • buy out every major company int he world
  • construct millions of life-size cities
This fascinating information came from Resto NYC HERE.

So looking at this beach - what do you think in terms of quintillions?  Determining the number involves wide variations in size of beach and conditions. One site says that an average beach would have 7.5 quintillion grains of sand. 
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