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Unless my maths is very much off, if you made the oil into one long cuboid 1 atom across, the length would be 88 light years. I was kind of disappointed by this
by andrewingram 16y ago
Unless my maths is very much off, if you made the oil into one long cuboid 1 atom across, the length would be 88 light years. I was kind of disappointed by this, I was hoping it would be longer than the known universe.
- hugh3 16y agoWhat are you using for "one atom"? Using one square angstrom as the cross section of an atom (which is about right), and plugging "187 million gallons / 1e-20 m^2 in light years" into google, I get: 7.48237279 × 10^9 light years which is at least an appreciable fraction of the universe, and ten thousand times the width of the galaxy.
- andrewingram 16y agoIt looks like my calculations were in fact way off. Though when I plug that into google I get a different answer because it assumes imperial gallons for me. However, this answer is much more interesting and restores my faith in ridiculous numbers.