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Thanks for the catch!

Also, I forgot to mention that all these timelines are in years.

But then I thought about it and about any human unit of time really doesn't change the numbers much at all. Heck, even measured as units of 'age-of-the-current-universe', the extra 0s just fade into the rounding errors very quickly.

To be clear here, that is stating that however you measure time pretty much has no meaning at these scales.




> But then I thought about it and about any human unit of time really doesn't change the numbers much at all.

As the Wikipedia page[0] puts it:

> Although listed in years for convenience, the numbers beyond this point are so vast that their digits would remain unchanged regardless of which conventional units they were listed in, be they nanoseconds or star lifespans.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future#cit...




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