RE: limitations? 4Ur db
- Posted by kbochert at ix.netcom.com Apr 14, 2002
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-------Phoenix-Boundary-07081998- You wrote on 4/14/02 11:46:54 AM: > >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 posit= >ions. 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 ^1= >34 aM > >Why go beyond that? Wouldn.t simply a limit of 10^1024 be abundant? > >Antoine > Quantum physics teaches that there is only one fundamental unit of length. The planck length is about 1.6X10-35 meters. Attometers are HUGE! Karl Bochert -------Phoenix-Boundary-07081998---