Incooo,ooo,ooo,ooomprehensible!
"... the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth." Carl Sagan, American astrobiologist
Although the size of the universe can be measured, its vastness is unfathomable. Imagine gathering all the beaches on earth and placing them in one pile. The pile represents the universe and a single grain of sand, the sun. What about our planet, earth? To represent it, you would have to use a speck that is 1/300,000th the mass of a single grain of sand.
Can you see why finding a needle in a haystack is infinitely easier than finding planet earth in the universe?
"We are a blink of the eye in time - a subatomic speck of dust in space!" G.D.Fury
Our Galaxy, has approximately 400 billion stars. What is the total number of galaxies in the universe? Carl Sagan assumed 100 billion. Others calculate 130 billion galaxies, slightly larger than Sagans estimate. Then the number of stars in the universe is 400 billion x 130 billion, or about 50,000 billion billion.
A billion billion. That's 1,000,000,000,000,000,000. So, grasp the concept of a billion billion, then think of 50 thousand of those. Easy!
Not to question what we have been taught about the creation of the world, god and religion seems kind of silly.
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