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seeknotfind ◴[28 Jun 25 17:25 UTC] No.44406443[source]▶

> So I said, imagine you had 10,000,000sub10 grains of sand. Then you could … well, uh … you could fill about 10,000,000sub10 copies of the observable universe with that sand.

I don't get this part. Is it really rounding away the volume of the observable universe divided by the average volume of a grain of sand? That is many more orders of magnitude than the amount of mass in the universe, which is a more usual comparison.

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1. Chirono ◴[28 Jun 25 17:35 UTC] No.44406542[source]▶

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Exactly. This number is so so much bigger than 10^100000 or however many grains of sand would fit, that dividing by that amount doesn’t really change it, certainly not enough to bring it down closer to 9,999,999sub10

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