Thursday, March 11, 2010

Trillions

How much is a trillion?
Sometimes, not much. According to PopSci, "If the LHC [Large Hadron Collider] was operating at its full 7 trillion electron volt capacity, the colliding particles' energy would equal what you'd get from eating 0.00013 micrograms of a candy bar."
On the other hand, if we're talking about a trillion dollars, that's a bit more than 39,763,012 years of the median annual income for Americans over age 18.

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