The Thoughts of Wesley son of Cornelius

A mole is an oddly-named unit in chemistry. Like a dozen or a gross, a mole refers to a particular number of things. A dozen refers to 12 'things'; a mole refers to 6.022x10^23 'things'. This number is so large because atoms are so small. Here is an example: 22.4 liters of a gas is equivalent to one mole. This volume is about how much air is in an empty kitchen drawer. This "empty" kitchen drawer has approximately 6x10^23 air molecules in it. Let's say you put all the air molecules on your desk and start to count them (like coins). Let's say you are the world's quickest counter--you can count 1,000 molecules every second. 1000 ... 2000 ... 3000 ... etc. At this rate it would take you around 20,000,000,000,000 YEARS (i.e. 20 trillion years) to count every molecule in your unused kitchen drawer. Okay, after some practice, you learned to count 1 million molecules every second. Now it will only take you 19,000,000,000 YEARS (i.e. 19 billion years). Wow! (see post Number? at http://www.joenapalm.blogspot.com/)

"And he [Jesus] said, 'I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.'" (Matthew 18:3-4 NIV)