A New Generation Marks Time Their Own Way

The other day, Daniel asked me:

"Dad, is there like - googolplex seconds in a year?"

The beauty of the question is the way that it combines something timeless with something very specific to our time.  I would have asked a quantitative question, at his age, in similarly wholesale commodities,  but I never, ever had a notion of "googolplex" as a child - or even as a young adult.

(Daniel, June 10, 2014)