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To: Telepathic Intruder

It is amazing. It is amazing how large a galaxy is and even more amazing how many galaxies there are.


6 posted on 04/07/2021 6:00:52 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

One or two trillion in just the observable universe, which may only be a tiny fraction of the total universe. I read in one of Brian Greene’s books that if inflation theory is correct, the universe must be at least 10^20 times the radius of the visible horizon. And since volume increases with the cube of the radius, that’s how many galaxies? Answer: unimaginable.


7 posted on 04/07/2021 6:30:09 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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