Talk:Yottagram

The Yottagram In Science Fiction
How many yottagrams does our galaxy weigh?

I can't think of a better science to culture crossover article. This page has the potential to be great. In terms of using the word yottagram in a movie, what kind of sf anime monster would one be talking about here? What cartoon character could weigh a yottagram? The dialogue in such a supposed anime could be something about 'putting a zettagram of sauce on a yottagram of food' or 'Our yard is 10 to the 28 square meters in area and when I mow it I put out a zettagram of clippings' or  'If there is more than one universe, how many yottagram would the engine weigh to drive it around to the other universes?'

This is the sort of thing that kids live for when they are doing term papers, but it is certainly beyond me how this content could be woven into the actual interesting science that must be involved at this scale.

hanzomon5--64.12.117.7 12:19, 1 May 2005 (UTC)--McDogm 23:02, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

If the earth weighs 6,000 yottagram, and the sun weighs 2 x 10 to the 30 gram, then one would need a heavier unit such as a yottazettagram to write the necessary science fiction. A yottazettagram would be 10 to the 45 grams. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, weighs about 1/1000 of a YZg. If 1000 galaxies weigh 1 YZg, and a million galaxies weigh 1000 YZg, then one would begin to get a handle on 'how to plan to build an engine to 'drive our universe around to visit the other universes' as broached above. The known universe as of 2004 was comprised of only 10 billion galaxies, giving us 10 million yottazettagram as its weight, subject to further analysis of Hubble and JWST data in the coming years. A 10m YZg galaxy could receive propulsion from a motor weighing merely 100,000 YZg at most, which is a weight equal to the weight of 100 m galaxies. Of course, the fuel for this journey would be the content of our universe itself, so the weight of the universe would decrease as it was used for fuel. How far could we go? And would it be worth it? Would our universe have to appropriate material from other universes in order to continue? And if we found a Big Bang that was waiting to happen, could we design an engine that would run on its energy and eventual explosion? Much as automobiles run on exploiting the controlled explosion of petroleum distillates?--McDogm 20:31, 5 May 2005 (UTC)