How Long Is A Billion Seconds (And Why)?

Exact Answer: 31.71 Years

Numbers like billions, millions, and trillions do wonder how many zeroes would be there in it and when calculating or assessing how much this billion relate to how many years that one can live. Sometimes thinking of these things make it quite interesting to even know further. Everyone is so optimistic about earning billions and when it comes to counting one’s life through billions of seconds on the planet that one is living which makes one think of this for a separate time that takes them to another world forgetting the reality.

How Long Is A Billion Seconds?

According to all calculations, a billion seconds on the planet earth is nearly equal to 31.71 years. Well, to know how long is a billion seconds there are many ways to find out according to one’s convenience like which one is the easy method. As one billion seconds is equal to 31.70 years it would also include leap years.

One can calculate by dividing one billion seconds by the seconds that remain in a year that is 1,000,000,000/31,536,000 which is nearly equal to 31.709 years. One can find out how many seconds in a year by calculating how many seconds in a day and multiplying that value by 365 days which would be equal to one year. So there are 86400 seconds in a day as one hour is equal to 3600 seconds and multiplying 3600 by 24 because there are 24 hours in a day it would be 86,400 seconds in a day.

when there are 86,400 seconds in a day then there would be 31,536,000 seconds in a year. One can also relate this to how many days long a billion seconds would be by multiplying 31.709 by 365. One can count separately for leap years.

Why Is A Billion Seconds So Long?

It is so obvious that a billion seconds would long for 31 1/2 years because it depends on the rotation and revolution of the earth around the sun. As one rotation of the earth is equal to 86,400 seconds that is 24 hours in a day because rotation is the circular movement of a planet on its axis. And when it comes to revolution, it is the planet’s movement around the sun that is 31,536,000 seconds that is 365 days in a year.

So this is how a billion seconds long for 31 1/2 years and the period is not the same in other planets because it depends on the orbital distance between the sun and the other planets. As mercury is the first planet nearer to the sun and the period would be less when compared to other planets. Mercury’s rotation period is about 58.6 days that is 1408 hours because mercury is the fastest planet so one rotation on mercury would be 58.6 days as this is a reference to the timing of planet earth.

So, a billion seconds would be 197.28 years long on the planet mercury. When it comes to the planets after earth like Jupiter the revolution period is about 11.87 years and it would last for 27,778 years for a billion seconds. This is how it varies on other planets like Mars, Jupiter, and others. As it depends on the rotation and revolution periods.

Conclusion

This is a bit fascinating to know how a billion seconds is equal to 31 1/2 years and one could count that how long they could live if they spent one billion seconds on this planet. Because billion is just a number having nine zeroes after one and this number is which equal to some years make us anxious that how much one is ahead to just cross this one billion seconds. The number series which are million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, and even more numbers are that one comes ahead by living on this planet.

The planet earth has been old about 4.543 billion years that means that everyone is living on the earth that it has spent 1.433*10^17 seconds. Does it find interesting and little anxious to know as before humans dinosaurs and other huge animals used to live on this planet because we have come so far on the earth living every second?

References:

1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375947416001755
2. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6148553/