Ever notice how disinterested people can get when you discuss a topic, cosmology & math especially, where large numbers are mentioned? Time, distance, & size are three subjects that tend to lend themselves to huge numbers. Seems that if one wants to lose an audience then all one needs to do is talk big numbers. Accompanying yawns complete with 'deer in the headlights' facial expressions may indicate we lack the ability to comprehend large sums. Don't really know if it's true but it's been an observation of mine. So to see if my intuition was close to being right, I tried to find something on it. I did find this....
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-to-compr...ers-1531604757
Seems that we do have some trouble with big numbers but try to compensate by using some simple tricks. Thoughts