Make that visible universe.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote:

> The radius of the universe in meters is:
> 15e9 years * 365.2425 days/year * 24 hours/day *
> 3600 seconds/hour * 3e8 meters/second
>
>    ] r=: */ 15e9 365.2425 3600 24 3e8
> 1.42006e26
>
> Its volume in cubic meters is:
>    o. 4r3 * r^3
> 1.19953e79
>
> The minimum size of an atom is a Bohr radius sphere:
>    o. 4r3 * 5.3e_11 ^ 3
> 6.23615e_31
>
> The number of atoms is therefore bounded by the
> former divided by the latter:
>    (o. 4r3 * r^3) % (o. 4r3 * 5.3e_11^3)
> 1.92351e109
>
> That is, if the entire universe is packed with atoms,
> there'd be no more than 2e109 of them.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009 13:59
> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] table of primes to 1,000,000,000 or more
> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
>
> > I believe the estimate of 10^100 atoms is actually hydrogen
> > atoms.
> >
> > Anyhow, I got my estimate from wikipedia.com.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message Follows -----
> > From: Zsbán Ambrus <[email protected]>
> > To: Programming forum <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] table of primes to 1,000,000,000
> > or more
> > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:29:10 +0200
> >
> > >On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:10 PM,
> > >> <[email protected]> wrote: If there are ~
> > >10^100 atoms in the universe,
> > >
> > >I think that's an underestimate, there are actually between
> > >10^200 and 10^300 atoms in the universe I believe.
> > >
> > >Ambrus
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