Whats the biggest number...?

Whats the larger number?

  • grains of sand on the planet

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • number of molecules in a single glass of water

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • number of glasses of water in all the world's oceans, seas & rivers

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • number of stars in the known universe

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • number of leaves on all the trees on the planet

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • number of hairs on all humans & animals on the planet

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • number of atoms in the known universe

    Votes: 19 35.8%
  • number of sub-atomic particles emitted by the big bang

    Votes: 30 56.6%

  • Total voters
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old.Tohtori

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More interesting; what's half of infinity?

Can't be infinity because then infinity would be infinity x2 :D
 

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wait for the poll...("infinity x 2" is meaningless BTW)
 

old.Tohtori

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wait for the poll...("infinity x 2" is meaningless BTW)

Not the question :D

I'm going with stars, it's a ridicilous amount really.

Oh damn...didn't think that through...do we count planets and such as stars, or only the stars?
 

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ah clicked before i read the last one, should be bigger than all of them combined (If you include the anti-matter as well).
 

Thadius

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clearly atoms, as that are what everything else is made of :p
 

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clearly atoms, as that are what everything else is made of :p

thing is during the big bang, there was today's amount of atoms + atoms that were annihilated by anti-particles and + aforementioned anti-particles.
The atoms that we have now are only the remnant of the atoms that were originally. Now if you ask me why the matter and anti-matter separation was uneven - I have no idea :)
 

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lol toht voted for there being more stars than atoms :p
 

Olgaline

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ah!
but for you see!
it was metaphorical, he ment, that everything in the univers has it's own little bright shining star inside,
 

Thadius

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God created the universe anyway!

Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot!!!1
 

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Make it a little more tricky, like, how many photons have existed to date?
 

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- number of sub-atomic particles emitted by the big bang

Not sure if the big bang emitted sub atomic particles or if it whas energy, or anything else. So clearly it's the number of atoms in the known universe, unless someone can prove the big bang emitted all the sub atomic particles of which the atoms in the todays universe are made.
 

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At the time of the big bang, there were no atoms to speak of. The first period was a plasma-kind of substance, due to the pressure and temperature at that point in time and space.
Only after the big bang atoms started to form in the form of hydrogen.
It's possible that anti-matter and regular matter annihilated each other at the time of the big bang, but it wouldn't really make the answer here any different if no anti-matter was created at all, because all the matter in the universe here as we know it was created in the big bang in the form of subatomic particles, and not all those particles have been converted to atoms, since some have remained to be energy or gamma radiation, thus the last answer is the only correct one.
 

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I clicked the last one but lolo ferreri's bra size was right up there tbh
 

old.Tohtori

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lol toht voted for there being more stars than atoms :p

I did, missed the atoms option while reading it.

Much like you missed the podt about it :D

though every atom is a potential star, so in that sense :p
 

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At the time of the big bang, there were no atoms to speak of. The first period was a plasma-kind of substance, due to the pressure and temperature at that point in time and space.
Only after the big bang atoms started to form in the form of hydrogen.
It's possible that anti-matter and regular matter annihilated each other at the time of the big bang, but it wouldn't really make the answer here any different if no anti-matter was created at all, because all the matter in the universe here as we know it was created in the big bang in the form of subatomic particles, and not all those particles have been converted to atoms, since some have remained to be energy or gamma radiation, thus the last answer is the only correct one.

So the big bang produced sub-atomic particles? To put the question in another way; Does a Hydrogen(-1) atom consists of sub atomic particles?
 

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So the big bang produced sub-atomic particles? To put the question in another way; Does a Hydrogen(-1) atom consists of sub atomic particles?

yes, since its single proton is made up by 3 quarks, 2 up and 1 down
 

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