capital letters = link life-length one raised to the eleventh Power (1 ^11) = 100 000 000 000 years how long the Galaxy as we know it today lasts these time scales take a bit of getting used to, don't they? it's not until a being is 99 999 999 999 years old that it becomes appallingly small there are a few lifetimes worth in there each lifetime more awesome than the next and the next one beckoning, forever beckoning |