Math problem

[Ichaban]

I love all of your books, and while I am waiting for your next book to come out, I am re-reading Mr. Hartley, and came across the section where the women are trying to figure out how long Zack sat in the void based on a .06 sec (real world) to 1 hr (void) conversion time. Both Claire and Lisa got 2,783 yrs, but this didn't sound right. So I decided to break out the pen and paper, and for the roughly 17 months Zack thinks passed in the real world, I am getting closer to 94,980 yrs spent in the void. Is the number Claire got an accidental mistake, or is Zack not saying how long he actually spent in the void so that the women won't know how old he is? Or did I get my math wrong?

.06 sec = 1 hr
6 sec = 100 hr
60 sec (1 min) = 1000 hr
60 min (1hr) = 60,000 hr
24 hr (1 day [d]) = 1,440,000 hr
365 d (1 yr) = 525,600,000 hr
17 months (1.583 yr) = 832,024,800 hr (/24hr=34,667,700d/365d=94,980yrs)

[PS Power]

Think of it in any way which works for you?

It's a story, not a math text, after all. They could just be wrong. Or I could be? Which is the same thing really. So don't be shy about picking one that works for you.

[David]

Don't forget he even said he thought it was probably wrong what he told them and had downplayed the time involved, especially since time in the void is variable, it doesn't' always move at that speed.

The point is kind of moot now anyway, since he's older than the universe after book four. However long that is.

[PS Power]

A little over 13 billion years old for the universe. The oldest things in it seem to clock in at about 15 billion years old.

Yes, scientists have wondered about that one as well. Probably a measuring error.

[addmoreice]

[David]

Obviously Zack has been playing a practical joke on us, and moved all that stuff back two billion years to add to the time.

[PS Power]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obIGsb-IZMo

[RyanM]

I got a little under 95 thousand years too.

17 months = 578 days = 13872 hours
.06 seconds = 0.000016667 hours

0.000016667/13872 = 1/X, X=832153569 hours = 34673065.4 days = 94994.7 years

[obnesence]

But remember, Zack can change how fast or slow his time in the void is.

[Blame]

Um. Our universe COULD be 13 billion years old. Frankly when you start toting them up the Big Bang theory has more holes than solutions. While I can't think of a better theory I find the details speculative. It is more honest to say that something happened roughly at that time. Probably not a bang or not only a bang. The evidence doesn't back it up - hence the dark energy fudge. Also a simple bang won't account for the normal matter without another unjustified fudge. Better to say there was an event roughly then and when it was over there was a lot of hydrogen. Our universe could be a fair bit older or even a lot older if that event wasn't actually its beginning.

Then again the Demonverse need not follow any such rules. It need not be bigger than close observation requires or stretch back further in time than when it was created fully formed by pure will in 4004 BC. If, as is plausible for the plot, the demonverse reality was created by an earth centered god then why would it be as big as our cosmology requires?

There is an estimated 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in our universe. If the Demonverse was truly that big would trapping a few tens of greater demons destroy it? Yes, maybe if our planet was the only one that mattered but God would not wast so much space.

PS Power......... you did ask me about number editing. Well, Ichaban caught you out. No big deal. A book needs to be fun to read not utterly free of bugs. Its not programming or accountancy. Still, had he found it before publication you would have happily accepted the correction.