Star survey reaches 70 sextillion

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by oleg:
10^100 It is bigger than number of atoms in Universe, Last time I counted them

That's the way I heard it as well. Something on the order of 10^40 atoms of hydrogen in the entire universe (as best as we can understand it so far). And perhaps 10^44 seconds in the lifespan of the universe -- from big bang to big crunch or heat death as I recall. That would be in the dodecillions -- if someone wanted to use that name for the number

[ July 26, 2003, 01:18: Message edited by: Arkcon ]