[fishtank]

I was thinking about this question a lot --- about two years ago....

Forgotten about it since then.....

[fishtank]

[Red Badger]

You can count them.........

[ctdonath2]

What we see doesn’t fit in a 10,000 light year radius universe.

[huldah1776]

Why not Just ask the One who knows? :)

Behold Our God

https://sovereigngracemusic.bandcamp.com/track/behold-our-god-2

VERSE 1
Who has held the oceans in His hands
Who has numbered every grain of sand
Kings and nations tremble at His voice
All creation rises to rejoice

CHORUS
Behold our God seated on His throne
Come let us adore Him
Behold our King nothing can compare
Come let us adore Him!

VERSE 2
Who has given counsel to the Lord
Who can question any of His Words
Who can teach the One who knows all things
Who can fathom all His wondrous deeds

VERSE 3
Who has felt the nails upon His hands
Bearing all the guilt of sinful man
God eternal humbled to the grave
Jesus, Savior risen now to reign!

[alloysteel]

I donno - there are an awful lot of OTHER planets with sand grains on ‘em.

I think sand grains win on the numbers game.

[dead]

[Fiji Hill]

Now there's 99 kinds of candy bars
Heaven knows there must be a billion stars.
Lots of candy bars, about a billion stars,
But there's only one of you.

[GingisK]

Yeah, some people agonize over things that just do not matter.

[plain talk]

First you have to estimate galaxies. I’ve seen estimates of 200B to 2T galaxies.

Then each one holds from a few hundred million to maybe 100T stars.

Not a trivial question to ask.

[zbogwan2]

My grandson Adam asked me where the universe ends? I said I think it is endless. We’re told that the universe it forever expanding by the experts? With our current technology and turtle slow space travel means....we’ll probably only know the answer to the grains of salt universe thing when we reach the other side after death? Then the Creator God will enlighten us to all the Mysteries of the universe!

[Telepathic Intruder]

There’s about 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on Earth. And that’s just in the known universe.

[Verbosus]

Well, that was indeed interesting.

[Yo-Yo]

I was thinking about this question a lot --- about two years ago....

I was thinking about this question a lot --- about 45 years ago when I experimented with Pot.

I came to the conclusion that there are more grains of sand than there are stars, because there are only about 200 billion stars, and at least half have planets, and for every star that has a planet with sand, there's a bunch more grains of sand to count.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Most sand is produced as parrotfish excrement. They eat coral and poop sand. There are about 95 species of parrotfish. One of the larger types can produce 200 pounds of sand a year.

[Openurmind]

I think there are as many universes as grains of sand. There is more than one, they are infinite. Just because we do not see them yet does not mean they are not there. We humans tend to limit our own perspective far too much.