April 14, 200521 yr And we got into a discussion on numerical prefixes for computer storage like mega, giga, terra, etc. I said that the coolest one was exabyte, or roughly one quintillion bytes, i mean come on, exabyte sounds so much cooler than gigabyte or petabyte. So we proceded to figure out how to put gigabytes in terms of exabytes, since the term gigabyte usually come up on a day by day basis. So here we go, I shall hence forth refer to gigabytes as nano-exabytes. Saying, "yeah, my computer has over 60 nano-exabytes of storage" just sounds so much cooler and nerdier than "yeah, my computer has over 60 gigs of storage" Wouldnt you guys agree? Later, we got into a discussion about a Google (not the site, the number), 10^100, and a googleplex, 10 followed by a google 0's. We wanted to know if there were a googleplex or even a google atoms in the entire universe, so we did some calculations. They were pretty rough, but even when we inserted huge fudge factors, the number didnt even come close to a google. So, assuming almost 100% of matter is hydrogen, and not counting any other particles but those in atoms, there are approximately 10^68 atoms in the universe, give or take a couple trillion trillions. Doesnt sound like much does it?
April 14, 200521 yr So, assuming almost 100% of matter is hydrogen, and not counting any other particles but those in atoms, there are approximately 10^68 atoms in the universe, give or take a couple trillion trillions. Doesnt sound like much does it? I'll say give... few (like 10-20) zero's.
April 14, 200521 yr Author gist of the message: I got a nerd school, me being a big one, there are virtually no girls, and no social lives for non frat people/frat moochers, so we spend our time doing nerdy things. Last night we calculated that there are 10^68 atoms in the ENTIRE UNIVERSE
April 15, 200521 yr if you think about how big the universe is that really doesnt sound like too many... :/
April 15, 200521 yr Author sigh, Jimmy, remember the last college related thread where you mentioned bongs and you were banned. Im thinking the very substances you talk about are killing your memory. Lay off em' Anyhoo, yeah, thats what we thought in regards to the number of atoms, but even after trying to take into account other things, the number didnt grow by that much (only a couple trillion trillions).
April 15, 200521 yr but that doesnt seem like it is right because everything is made of atoms and there are like a kagillion bazillion of them on earth and thats just earth....think about all the stars and planets and other stuff in space and plus if the universe never ends then there would be an infinite number of atoms....right? some website says there are this many in the world: 133,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 and if there are that many in the world then there are definately a googleplex out there somewhere googleplex = 1 followed by 99 zeros, right?
April 15, 200521 yr Do this: 1) find appx. volume of the universe (NASA or something) 2) find appx. avg. density of it (see above) 3) do the math (duh) 4) copy results to this thread 5) do it, becouse im too lazy to do it myself. And besides im not in the amounts of 10^60. I went the opposite way - to 10^-15.
April 15, 200521 yr Author tonight perhaps we will do that Ky, I felt 10^68 was an awfully small number. Sneaky: googol = 10^100 googolplex = 10 followed by 10^100 zeroes, it is essentially infinity.
April 15, 200521 yr tonight perhaps we will do that Ky, I felt 10^68 was an awfully small number. Sneaky: googol = 10^100 googolplex = 10 followed by 10^100 zeroes, it is essentially infinity. it is far from infinity.
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