Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: dr_lew

Ok, relevancy!

Suppose a hydrogen atom were a football. That gives it a diameter of say, 10 cm, versus 1 Angstrom, or 1 billion times as large on a linear scale. Then .3 atoms per cc translates to .3 footballs per cubic 10^9 centimeters, or cubic 10^4 km. So that’s 71000 footballs within the sphere with radius equal to the earth-moon distance, by my calculation.

Well hey, that’s a lot of footballs!


29 posted on 09/05/2013 9:10:09 PM PDT by dr_lew
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies ]


To: dr_lew

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/saywhat.wav


33 posted on 09/05/2013 9:31:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson