Science

*Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. (1837) (Albert Einstein)

*We can’t use faith to argue science, but we can use science to argue faith. (2788) (Sigmund Brower)

*Such a wonderful uniformity in the planetary system must be allowed the effect of choice. Isaac Newton (1756) (In other words, the universe had to come about by design and not by chance.)

*The laws of the universe are written in the simple complexities of mathematics. (2339) (Galileo)

*The realm of biology is a celebration of God’s creativity in its most beautifully miniaturized form. (2029) (John Medina, The Outer Limits of Life 1991)

*There is nobody who is saying that there’s a mystery in the Bermuda Triangle who is basing this on good, accurate information. Kusche (1845) ( Lawrence Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved 1975)

*Hyper Dimensional Physics (262)

WAY COOL NUMBERS

This part has some really awesome numbers in it. I thought I’d throw it in for free because contemplating un-contemplatable numbers is supposed to be good exercise for your brain. Here’s a number that is incredible, but totally useless: some Japanese researchers with plenty of time on their hands have calculated pi to 1.24 trillion places. Pi, that famous number that starts out 3.14, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. At least it got them in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The earth spins at 1,040 mph at the equator. In New York City you’re only spinning at 800 mph. The earth revolves around the sun at 18.5 miles per second (mps). The sun revolves around our galaxy at 140 mps. Our galaxy is moving toward the center of our Local Group of galaxies at 25 mps. Our Local Group is moving toward the constellation Hydra at 370 mps. Now we know what those “stop the world - I want off!” people were talking about.

OK, ready for some exercise? A number like 10 to the 9 th means that this number is a 10 with nine zeros after it. If would look like this: 10,000,000,000. That number is ten billion. Got it?

Light travels one meter in 0.000000003335640952 of a second.

Neutrinos have a mass of one ten-millionth the mass of an electron. Or one 0.0000001 the mass. Or one 10 to the -6 th the mass of an electron. Three ways to write the same number.

Visible light has a wavelength of between 40 to 80 millionths of a centimeter. A centimeter if 1 thousandth of a meter.

The human finger can distinguish textures as small as 75 nanometers. 1/300 th the width of a hair is 300 nanometers.

Absolute zero is -459.69 F or 459.69 degrees Fahrenheit below 0. That’s the temperature at which all molecular activity stops.

The temperature at the core of the sun is fourteen million degrees Centigrade, or 14,000,000 degrees C, or 14 to the 6 th degrees C.

I am 16,500 days old today.I am 396,000 hours old today.

I am 22,860,000 minutes old today. (twenty two million, eight hundred sixty thousand)

I am 1,371,600,000 seconds old today. (one billion, three hundred seventy one million, six hundred thousand) I’m a billionaire in seconds!

There are six billion people alive today, or 6,000,000,000 people, or 6 to the 9 th people.

The probable age of the universe is fifteen billion years, or 15,000,000,000 years, or 15 to the 9 th years.

A super-computer called Blue Horizon can make one trillion, seven hundred billion calculations per second. That’s 1,700,000,000,000 calculations per second, or 17 to the 11 th calculations per second.

It took one hundred thousand trillion computer operations to make the movie Toy Story. That’s 100,000,000,000,000,000 operations, or 10 to the 16 th operations.

Light travels at 186,282 miles per second, or five trillion, eight hundred seventy eight billion miles per year. That’s 5,878,000,000,000 miles per year, or 5,878 to the 9 th miles per year.

The sun is 93,000,000 miles away, and it takes light 8 minutes and 20 seconds to each us.

Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, is 8,6 light years away, or fifty trillion miles. That’s 50,000,000,000,000 miles, or 50 to the 12 th miles away.

A parsec is 3.26 light years, or nineteen trillion, two hundred billion miles, or 19,200,000,000,000 miles. Our Milky Way Galaxy is 60,000 parsecs wide. That equals one million, one hundred fifty two thousand trillion miles, or 1,152,000,000,000,000,000 miles or 1,152 to the 15 th miles.

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2,500,000 light years away, or fourteen million, six hundred ninety five thousand trillion miles. That’s 14,695,000,000,000,000,000 miles or 14,695 to the 15 th miles.

The Virgo cluster of galaxies is comprised of 2,500 galaxies and is fifty million light years away. That’s about two hundred ninety four million trillion miles, or 293,900,000,000,000,000,000 miles, or 2,939 to the 17 th miles away.

Quasars are fourteen billion light years away, or eighty two billion, two hundred ninety two trillion trillion miles away. That’s 82,292,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles, or 82,292 to the 18 th miles away.

The brightest object in the universe is FSC10212+44724. It is as bright as one hundred trillion suns, or 100,000,000,000,000 suns, or 10 to the 13 th suns.

If the sun were a black hole, its mass would be a million billion times as dense as gold (and just 4 miles across), or 1,000,000,000,000,000 times, or 10 to the 14 th times as dense as gold.

The “Great Attracter,” which our galaxy and local group is being pulled toward, has the mass of twenty thousand trillion suns, or 20,000,000,000,000,000 times the mass, or 20 to the 15 th times the mass of our sun.

The total number of insects on this planet is estimated at ten quintillion. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 insects, or 10 to the 18 th insects on planet earth.

Of all the stars in the universe, only 1/10 of 1% have planets. If each star that has planets, has an average of 10 planets, then there would be one hundred million trillion planets in the universe. That’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 planets, or 10 to the 22 nd planets in the universe.

One gram of carbon has over five hundred one million trillion atoms, or 501,700,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, or 501.7 to the 20 th atoms.

The sun’s luminosity is three hundred ninety billion billion megawatts, or 390,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 megawatts, or 39 to the 25 th megawatts.

One cubic inch of liquid water contains ten trillion trillion molecules. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules, or 10 to the 24 th molecules.

The universe was a million trillion trillion degrees at the instant of creation. That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 degrees, or 10 to the 29 th degrees.

There are five million trillion trillion bacteria now living on earth. That’s 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bacteria, or 5 to the 30 th bacteria. So wash your hands.

It would take one thousand million million million million years for the earth to be pulled in to the sun by gravity. that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, or 10 to the 38 th years.

The probable life of a proton is greater than ten million million million million million years. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, or 10 to the 45 th years.

A sphere having the radius of Pluto’s orbit would contain ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion grains of sand. That’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of sand, or 10 to the 51 st grains of sand.

Scientists say that anything over a 1 chance in ten trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion is a mathematical impossibility. That’s 1 chance in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or one chance in 10 to the 60 th.

There are one hundred million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion protons in the known universe. That’s 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 protons, or 10 to the 79 th protons in the known universe. This number printed out is 7 ¾ inches long.

The chance that there is a naturally occurring planet in the universe that is capable of supporting life is 1 chance in 10 to the 174 th. That number printed out is 16 ¾ inches long.

Now here’s something you’ll really like!

The chances of a DNA molecule accidentally assembling itself together, anywhere in the universe, in the entire history of the universe, is one chance in 10 to the 100,000 th. That number printed out is 833 feet long.

The chances of a chromosome accidentally assembling itself together, anywhere in the universe, in the entire history of the universe, is one chance in 10 to the 119,841 th. That number printed out is 930 feet long.

What kind of odds do you think you could get on that in Las Vegas? Many people accept these impossible odds and build their religion around them. Yes, atheismis a religion. For me, it’s much easier to believe a supernatural being spoke the universe into existence (The Big Speak), allowed all the stuff to coalesce into galaxies, and then assembled the needed molecules into protoplasm. Either God did this, or God did not do this. What are those odds: 50 – 50?