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​How long ago and far away is Forever?
What number comes after a trillion?
 
This information will provide the scope of astronomical time and distance and some people’s theological time and distance.
 
Big numbers (times) the following:
♦ Earth years
♦ Earth centuries
♦ The time of each revolution of our galaxy- Milky Way Galactic year.
 
Perspective:
1 followed by 24 zeros = septillion
1 septillion meters distance is the distance light will travel in 100 million earth years.
 
Distances to and across various places in the cosmos. 
Astronomers estimate that there are over 200 billion galaxies in our known universe.  Each galaxy can have millions and billions of stars.
 
Something to ponder – Which is the longer span of time, the past or the future, from this point in time, as measured in earth years or any other real or theoretical measurement? We can’t be in the middle all of the time.
 
OH! and there are names of numbers for very small parts of a whole.  billionth?
 micron?  Pico?  look it up.
 
Our Milky Way Galaxy is approx. 100 million light years in distance across and takes approx. 225-250 million earth years for one rotation.
(one Milky Way Galactic Year)

Andomeda is our nearest galaxy and is approx. 2.5 million light years away.  We have discovered about 50 galaxies within our group that are within 12 million light years of our solar system, which means our galaxy group is approx. 24 million light years across.

Current astronomical understanding is that all distances between things are increasing 
 
From Dave Savage 
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Each number is a 1,000 times the previous one.
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​Really big # list
1 followed by # of Zeros
million 6
billion 9
trillion 12
quadrillion 15
quintillion 18
sextillion 21
septillion 24
octillion 27
nonillion 30
decillion 33
undecillion 36
dodecillion 39
tredecillion 42
quattuordecillion 45
quindecillion 48
sexdecillion 51
septdecillion 54
octodecillion 57
novemdecillion 60
vigintillion 63
unvigintillion 66
duovigintillion 69
trevigintillion 72
quattuorvigintillion 75
quinvigintillion 78
sexvigintillion 81
septvigintillion 84
octovigintillion 87
novemvigintillion 90
trigintillion 93
untrigintillion 96
duotrigintillion 99
google 100
tretrigintillion 102
quintrigintillion 108
sextrigintillion 111
septtrigintillion 114
sexagintillion 183
septuagintillion 213
octogintillion 243
nonagintillion 273
centillion 303
bicentillion 603
Tercentillion 903
quadricentillion 1203
quinquacentillion 1503
sexacentillion 1803
septuacentillion 2103
octocentillion 2403
nonacentillion 2703
millillion 3003

​​Googleplex
1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
 
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1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
 
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1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
 
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1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zeros
times 1 with 100 zero
=1 with 10 billion zeros

How long ago is forever?
How far away is forever?
Whatever the number above is, in the measurement of your choice, let that represent 1 and then start adding zeros next to it.  Such as:
The distance or time it takes light to travel between galaxies that are thought to be among the furthest apart, in our known 
 universe, then add a billion zeros next to that number. A distance or time with many billions of zeros only gets you a tiny way forever.

In what ways do your theological beliefs and "seems reasonable to me" beliefs include or conflict with these numbers?