Dear god why

I just found a number so big that it hurts me to try to think about thinking about it.

it is the third number in Kurskal's TREE sequence. to give you a rough idea of how large this is, there is the following paragraph:

the difference between it and friedman's n(4) is apparently inconcievable, and the difference between friedman's n(4) and Graham's number is also inconcievable, and Graham's number is inconcievably larger than a Googolplex, which is a POWER of 10^98 large than a Googol, and a googol is so large that it cannot be written down as the paper it was written on would take up more space than there is in the KNOWN UNIVERSE, which is said to be so inconcievably la

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rge that it would drive someone insane to be able to see all of it at once. lets see, that is 3X10^80 cubic meters, which is kind of unimaginably more than the milky way galaxy which is (9.5X10^20) X (9.5X10^18) cubic meters, which in turn is unimaginably more than our solar system, which is about 10,100,000,000,000 Meters in Radius (if we include dwarf planets in the Oort cloud), which is, in turn, really hard to think of compared to earth, which, at the equator, has a radius of only 6,378,100 meters. which is now in the realm where it is a BIT easier to understand, as 6.4 million meters is 6,400 kilometers, which is about 4000 miles, which is a little less than how far away britain is, which is a 14 hour flight at 4-6 hundred miles an hour, or abou

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t 22 times the width of massachusetts, which is 183 miles which is about the size of 7 marathons, or 33 mount everests, which is in turn about the size of 351 of the worlds TALLEST building (the Burj Dubai), which is half a mile tall, which is probably about the length of a walk it takes to get bored.

I can't even explain how big the numbers needed to understand how big the equations used to get the numbers needed to explain how big the number is that is needed to explain how big the number arrived at by the equation used to find the third number in the TREE sequence is.