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Old 04-01-2008, 04:17 AM
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Prove and prove. not going to flaunt mathematical formulas at you, so here is a childrens site: More stars than grain of sand!

If that do not do it for you, ah crap, math...

sand on earth: 7.5 x 10^18, or 7.5 billion billion.

stars in our galaxy: between 2 x 10^11 and 6 x 10^11 (mean 400 billion +/- 50%)

number of galaxies: at least 8 x 10^10, or 80 billion. Low estimate based upon the observable universe.

Doing a bit of generous rounding up, we could say there is 10^20 grains of sand on the earth, and 10^22 stars in the observable universe, by a low estimate. that gives at least 100 stars per grain of sand on earth. At the very minimum.

Oh, and by the way Rotawee, your concept of space is warped. Space is the universe. Where there is no space, there is no universe. There is nothing.

You and I are spacetravellers. Right here right now. Rotating on our earth, rotating round our sun, rotating and bobbing up and down in an undulating manner to our galaxy. And the milkway isn't exactly stationary either. And Andromeda is coming...

Give or take some billion years
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