How big is space in cubic miles

[dkatwa]

Yes, I know, pointless question and will be an approximation at best...however, I want to see how the best scientific minds on this forum calculate the volume of the universe in cubic miles...just to see the thought processes/ formulae, assumptions etc

[dkatwa]

hehe...that is true..but if we work on the basis that the furthest known object we have found is the delimiter, there must be some sort of rough, back- of- the - envelope calculation that the brains on this site can come up with?
I am just curious how many digits will be attached to the power of 10
:-)

[dkatwa]

Nimby said:

dkatwa said:

...just to see the thought processes/ formulae, assumptions etc

If you mean the visible universe, I'd look up the radius of universe, (= 46 billion light years) convert to miles (x 6,000,000,000,000) and plug into the formula for volume of a sphere (4 pi r cubed).

Not too hard with a scientific calculator.

I thought the furthest object found was 15,000,000,000 light years away?