[TyFenn]

Another way to understand exactly how much a trillion is to put that amount in the time frame of seconds. That's a trillion seconds. To go that far back, it would be before the times of the Roman Empire and even BEFORE the Chinese dynasties...or roughly prehistoric times.

A very respected economist, in my opinion, Thomas Sowell wrote an excellent opinion piece in today's Investor's Business Daily. This is his conceptualization (sp?). To be sure, the above idea is his and no mine. I recommend reading the article to get an idea of just how much it really is...staggering to say the least.