1. limitations? 4Ur db
- Posted by a.tammer at hetnet.nl
Apr 14, 2002
hello Kat,
why limit people to measuring the distance to Alpha Centauri in such a large
measuring standard as an Angstrom?
if you are (for the sake of discussion) 5' 2'' and you were an attometer, an
Angstrom would be 4 times the earth's equatorial circumference at 200km above
sea-level. So why not let them calculate the cubic contents of the known universe
in cubic attometers? That would only require 138 decimal positions. follow my
formula: 100,000,000,000 lightyears diameter universe in attometers would mean
roughly: [1aM=1*10 ^ -18 m ]
{1 * 10 ^ 11 (universe diam) * 3*1* 10 ^ 8 (lightspeed/sec) * 3.15576 * 10 ^
7 (seconds/yr) * 10 ^18 (attometer) } ^3 (cubic)/6= app 1.6 *10 ^134 aM
Why go beyond that? Wouldn.t simply a limit of 10^1024 be abundant?
Antoine
