April 29, 2014 in Science & Technology

How Many Things Are There?

follow: @tweetsauce https://twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and from http://www.audionetwork.com/ My instagram: http://instagram.com/electricpants Big thanks to https://www.youtube.com/user/Vihart and https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics for help with this journey. Human biomass volume: http://eesmyal.com/2012/02/human-cube/ spit facts: http://www.livescience.com/32208-how-much-spit-does-a-person-produce.html LEGOs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2013/10/23/lego-movie-peek-will-ferrell/2918385/ sand calculation: http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand.html sun in different wavelengths gif: http://imgur.com/gallery/H4IhGCg Sun image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/light-wavelengths.html totally neat minutephysics video on the observable universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NU2t5zlxQQ AWESOME and relevant numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GEebx72-qs Does MATH exist? PBS Idea Channel VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbNymweHW4E Our universe by the numbers: http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/numbers.html Galaxy visuals: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ reddit thread on reductionist counts: http://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/xqjl7/to_nonreductionists_how_many_things_are_there/ How big is the Universe: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/07/18/how-big-is-the-entire-universe/ [PDF] http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~zirbel/ast21/sciam/IsSpaceFinite.pdf http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/22390/would-one-actually-find-their-doppleganger-in-a-googolplex-universe http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/faq.htm http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2012/10/how-large-is-the-observable-universe/ particles in the universe: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1631/total-number-of-subatomic-particles-in-the-universe-are-they-finite-assuming