sextillions

If Walt Whitman was correct and "a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels," what does a Universe of such defiant dimensions and mysteries do to cosmologists, those scientists who strive to understand "it" all?

Right-Winger Goes To War Praguetory 2007

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels,

Walt Whitman 1900

The earth weighs six and a half sextillions of tons, and the ocean one and a half quintillions.

The Second Deluge 1890

It has been estimated that in the head of a pin there are not less than eight sextillions of atoms, or eight thousand thousand millions of thousand millions, and that in a cubic centimetre of air there are no less than a sextillion of molecules.

Part III, Chapter IV of "Uranie" 1890

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions

Leaves of Grass [1867] 1867

And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

In this he succeeded, and exhibiting his achievement in the afternoon, adorned the surface of the ice with successions of 898, till they amounted to as many sextillions, with their homogeneous sequences.

Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825

We can just hear him saying "sextillions and sextillions."

NPR Topics: News 2010

Commercial agriculture, the mainstay of the economy, has been destroyed by Mr Mugabe's seizures of white-owned farms, hyperinflation was already in the sextillions months ago, and an epidemic of cholera, which is normally treatable, has killed more than 3,000 people, while according to the UN 94 per cent are unemployed.

Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

Thus the Universe could be filled with light from sextillions of stars for another

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009