For those among you who, after all these years, still carry a grudge about my role in Pluto’s demotion, please know that since then, Pluto & I have become good friends.
So if Pluto can handle the truth, so can you.
Physicists have long suspected the real reason why Italian restaurants never serve pasta with the anti-pasta course — if the two ever combined they might spontaneously annihilate, creating pure energy, ruining your dinner.
Not that anybody asked but if, in fact, anti-pasta were the antimatter counterpart to pasta, then a serving bowl of each, when mixed, would generate a 20-Megaton nuclear blast.
There’s a pervasive chemical in the environment that’s a potent solvent. Found in acid rain, it will asphyxiate you if it enters your lungs. Its vapors can cause 2nd degree burns, it’s a greenhouse gas, and it’s also found in most foods.
That chemical is called…
Water.
How big is a Zillion, you ask?
Not sure. But I think it's a 1000 times larger than a Squillion, but only 1/1000th of a Gajillion.
And we have top people still trying to figure out the true size of a Bazillion.