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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

"Observable universe" isn't how much we can see, rather how much it is theoretically possible to observe by any physical means.

I also don't think that water drop fact is correct. The estimated number of stars in the observable universe is 10^24, which is about an order of magnitude more than 1 mol, and 1 mol of water is about 18g, which is quite a bit more than 10 drops.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Infinity beats both.

[–] MajorSauce@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but both of those measures are in the finite space.

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

*finite amount of space