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Isn't 1M galaxies just a drop in the bucket?
by hossbeast 4y ago
Isn't 1M galaxies just a drop in the bucket?
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- routerl 4y agoIs a million dollars the same as zero dollars, to a billionaire?
- sph 4y agoThe universe is almost a trillionaire (in estimated number of galaxies). So it would be like $1 to a millionaire or 1 cent to an average lower class family: inconsequential spare change
- nyani 4y agoEvery dollar greater than a dollar was as a dollar. Every penny greater than a penny was a penny. Every human greater than a human was a human. All that to say everything came from somewhere; consequentiality is another matter.
- qzw 4y agoYes, and apparently there are plans to do the same analysis on a newer sky survey that will have around 30M galaxies, which is ... also a drop in the bucket if we're talking hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. But if the same result holds, then it would definitely offer stronger evidence, particularly if the surveys are of very different regions of the universe, because some studies have suggested that the laws of physics may not be quite the same throughout the universe.