An interesting calculation?

Let me tell you first, I calculated this with Excel, because it's all I have. HOWEVER EXCEL makes errors. Download this Excel program to see it. You have to download it, and run it with original Microsoft Excel, to see the mistake. Not run it with a viewer. The viewer may be not Microsoft, and then the mistake will not appear.

Anyway, we can still use Ecel here I think.

Suppose Julius Cesar would have payed one dollar cent into a bank account, in the year he died. Suppose nobody ever closed the account, and the interest rate was 5% per year ever since. How much money would be on the account now? He died in the year 44 B.C.

The answer you can enter in your scientific calculator. You can also use an Excel sheet, which is what I did. This is the formula for Excel: 0,01*(1,05^(2007+44)).

Format the result in Excel for no decimals, and you will see this: 287907111543464000000000000000000000000000 US$.

I don't know what to think of this result, but sure the calculation is totally correct. This number is so incredible large, it is beyond any imagination at all. I have been trying but there is nothing I can put this number in relation with. Well, not in a way I can understand. Lets try to do something with it, and you will see what I mean. The following are all non-working attempts!

1) Suppose this money would be divided amongst all people that live today

Today live 6.500.000.000 persons in earth. That would be: 44293401775917600000000000000000 US$ per person.

With that money each person on earth could spend:

590578690345568000000000000000 US$ per year
67417658715247500000000000 US$ per day
18727127420902100000000 US$ per second

As you see, it is still beyond imagination. Nobody can spend that per second.

2 ) So we do something else with the money. Lets just go to the bank, withdraw it in cash, and have in changed into 1$ coins.

Then we will have to put those coins on the ground, since they are too heavy to carry.

The weight of those coins is: 1439540000000000000000000000000000000000 kilogram. Now we get a little problem, because the weight of our earth is only 5973600000000000000000000 kilogram. So the coins mass is 240983661443686 times as much as our earth. If we really would put that much mass together in one place, it would create so much gravity it can not exist any longer in a normal way. To make this clear, lets first make a more down to earth example. Suppose you put 1000 small, strong magnets in a bag. They will all attract each other, and form some sort of an object. The same happens with 1439540000000000000000000000000000000000 kilogram of 1$ coins. Because all things with mass attract each other, they will try to form a huge ball. The coins in the center will be compressed by all coins around it, and this generates a lot of friction, and heat results from that. It would heat up so incredibly even, the inner part would melt. Then would heat up further and further, and the core gets compressed so incredible, that the volume of the liquid metal actually gets compressed considerable. Note that metals can not be compressed under normal "earth" conditions. The results of compressing solid mass is going to create a nuclear fusion reaction. So atomic particles are compressed into each other, and the movement energy of the atomic particles is released by this in the form of heat. When this starts to happen, it causes a chain reaction, and the whole thing turns into a big nuclear fusion reaction. In the universe this is nothing unusual, this is called a star, or a sun if it's a small one. But even more would happen here. The mass is simply too large and the gravity is so large, that all mass would be compressed into what we call a black hole, and disappear so to say inside itself. We do not know what it looks like inside a black hole, but this black hole is going to be a HUGHE one. It will swallow all planets of our solar system, and some other systems that are near, like the Milky Way or Andromeda. Again this is beyond imagination.

3) It looks we need to go further out in space.

Remember in the year 1972 , NASA had launched the Voyager 1 into space. Just to see how far it would get. Well it is still transmitting signals to earth from an incredible far away distance, while it has left the solar system and is now entering into deep, black space. How far away is this? Well kilometers are not used to describe this. It has traveled a distance of 94 AU (Astronomical Units). One AU is 150.000.000km. Now let's take all the $ coins we got from the bank, in the previous example. We just line them all up, and let's see how far we get out in space with that line. So we have 287907111543464000000000000000000000000000 coins of each 3cm. That gives a total length of 8637213346303920000000000000000000000 km, or 5758142230869280000000000 AU (Astronomical Units). So that is 61256832243290200000000 times further away than Voyager 1. How far away is that? Probably further away then we all can imagine.

As you see, I fail to understand how big the number 28790711154346400000000000000000000000000 is, like given at the beginning of this text...

Hey... these are correct calculations ! ! ! All you need to do is put 0,01$ on the bank against 5% and wait 2000 years.

If someone has a good idea how to give some interpretation to this number, please let me know. I will be glad to place it here.