Math Lesson: How much is a billion?

Here is a short video by the not quite so mainstream media that has subtle implications for teaching the lemmings to count. Note the circular financial perspective - especially that red umbrella at the 36 second mark. The folks that bring you Citi advertising are selling a concept that we should not buy - that we owe the banksters this enormous debt.

I often deal with this topic when teaching chemistry. Molecules have to be accounted for in terms that rationalize billions of trillions of particles in tangible space. The log scale helps to take this concept and turn it into a linear function - where each number is ten times the next. Thus, one becomes zero and one becomes ten. Then two represents a hundred and three equals a thousand. Thus a million is six, a billion nine and a trillion twelve. The numbers increase exponentially.

This is about halfway to human on the scale of tangible size. A single grain of salt weighs in at about twenty. But i started at molecules and didn't go backward down to quarks or superstrings or anything like that. If i did, molecules would be about 10 and you could add ten to each corresponding number.

Now suppose that we are just in the middle of the scale rather than on the biggest end. This would set the size and scope of the multiverse at 64. This is a hugely significant number in a whole bunch of mathematical correlations - from chess to vaastu to I-Ching to ...

So where does that leave us as a course of action? We work on a dynamic scale where we don't recognize the very big at all and have to dissect reality to make models of the very small. People work on scales similar to molecular levels - count the number of people at the next big group conversation that you sit in on and send me the number - i will translate it into an element and then tell you whether the meeting was stable (successful). Emulating organic natural circumstance produces effective results.

So back to reality. The time has come to start thinking in terms of another reality.