Here’s a quick thought experiment designed to understand the nature of exponential growth. How high will the coins go if we double them up on every square on a chess board? All images used are in the public domain with the following exceptions: The chess board image was created by Wilfredor who has declared the image public domain. The ’18 story building’ is by Garry Knight CC BY 2.0 The image of the Oort Cloud was created by William Crochot The image of Alpha Centuri is by 藤井旭 CC BY 4.0 Thank you to the above named people who have made their work available for this video and thank you so much for watching , I do hope that you enjoyed it.