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> the total number of atoms in all those universes combined would be close Close?? Wouldn't it still be roughly 10 billion times smaller...?

• vidarh 10y ago
  When you're dealing with numbers on the order of 10^80 to 10^170, I think you're entitled to calling that "close".
  • Nevermark 10y ago
    The ratio is 10^90 which is not small. The subtractive difference rounds to 10^170. In either case, I think its fair to say that 10^170 is unimaginably larger than 10^80. But if differences become so large we cannot imagine the differences, then we could imagine there are no differences at all, so ... psychologically/subjectively there would be no difference?
    • bmm6o 10y ago
      The comparison in question is between 10^170 and 10^160 (= 10^80 * 10^80). So "just" a factor of 10^10.