How big is space in cubic miles

How big is space in cubic miles

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loudlashadjuster

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Wednesday 3rd February 2016
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Hilts

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Thursday 4th February 2016
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What's the smallest thing in the universe?

In centimetres.


motco

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246 months

Thursday 4th February 2016
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Hilts said:
What's the smallest thing in the universe?

In centimetres.
Probably the dot over the letter 'i' .....

Monty Python

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Friday 5th February 2016
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Nobody knows - we can guestimate but because we don't know the shape of the universe it's impossible to say.

Russian Rocket

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Friday 5th February 2016
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Hilts said:
What's the smallest thing in the universe?

In centimetres.
depends do you want that loopy or stringy?

either way the Plank length is 10^-33 centimeters which is the smallest thing that makes sense

I think it is expected the graviton will be about this size if it exists


Hilts

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Friday 5th February 2016
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Russian Rocket said:
Hilts said:
What's the smallest thing in the universe?

In centimetres.
depends do you want that loopy or stringy?

either way the Plank length is 10^-33 centimeters which is the smallest thing that makes sense

I think it is expected the graviton will be about this size if it exists
Thankyou, Here's Heinz Wolff with his take...

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Nimby

4,589 posts

150 months

Friday 5th February 2016
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Russian Rocket said:
either way the Plank length is 10^-33 centimeters which is the smallest thing that makes sense
Well, it's smaller than the Planck length (by one letter).

skeeterm5

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Friday 5th February 2016
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Greg66 said:
Don't think that is quite how space works. In much the same way as one doesn't ask "is the age of the universe the period since the big bang, or do we count the time before the big bag too?"
Correct, there is no void to expand into as a void implies the universe is expanding into something.... which I pretty sure the accepted wisdom is that it isn't. If that makes any sense at all, which it doesn't!

thebraketester

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138 months

Friday 5th February 2016
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Surely it would be more accurate to use the distance of the furthest known object as the radius. Im not saying we are the centre of the universe, but it seems more logical than using is as diameter.