When talking about the evolution of the universe, we are
talking about events that take an extremely long time to occur.
For this reason, I chose
to represent the evolution of time in terms of logarithmic steps:
In this table, each value on the left represents the age of the universe in terms
of the powers of 10. A value of 6 means 106
, or a million
years, and 9 means 109
or a billion years, 12 is a trillion
years, and 15 is a thousand trillion (or a million billion, etc).. 36 would be a
trillion, trillion, trillion (12 + 12 + 12 = trillion x trillion x trillion)..