http://zebu.uoregon.edu/ph123/l9.html
Here's a good place to start looking at on determining this answer.
First you have to believe that dark matter exists. If it does then
how much of it is out there.
http://www.space-time-mass.com/challenge.html
Another theory so the number of atoms in the universe is
indeterminate at this time.
> Jud McCranie wrote:
> >
> > At 10:48 AM 10/30/98 +1100, Simon Burge wrote:
> > >> Realy ? But with 64 bit or 128 bit adressing space you can address
> > >> every atom on the earth ... Once I mad a calculation about it, but I
> > >> think that 256 bit can address 1/8 of the universe.
> > >
> > >I seem to recall (vaguely!) that there's about 10^68 or 10^70 atoms in
> > >the universe? If 10^70 is the case, that's around 2^231. 2^256 is
> > >around 10^77...
> > >
> > No, it is around 10^78, maybe 10^80. That would be 259 to 265 bits. So the
> > previous statement about 256 bits being enough for 1/8 of the universe is
> > right, using the 10^78 figure.
>
>
> Hmm. Imagining the size of the universe as, one planet earth for
> every atom in planet earth, is certainly a concise belief. In hopes
> of derailing our cyber-implementiation discussions into full-blown
> basic cosmology, just how exactly are these rough figures arrived at?
>
>
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