Starting at about 1:40 in this Colbert Report interview, you will see the most amazing explanation of physics theory on the age of the oldest imaginable thing. I'm telling you, if we had more teachers like this guy, America would have the best educated students on the planet.
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..."The oldest thing we can imagine, which is the point in the Universe, when all of the black holes, so the collapsed stars evaporate away into nothingness. And the number is 10 to the power 100 years, that's ten with 100 naughts (zeroes), just to illustrate how big that number is, if I started counting with atoms, say I took an atom on the table and started counting, one, two, three, then I'd run out of atoms on the earth very quickly, and I'd start counting the atoms that make up the stars. There are a hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, three hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe, I would still run out of atoms. There are not enough atoms in the entire observable universe to count up to that number, which is the age of the oldest thing we can imagine in science."
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