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"one part in 10^24, which is kind of like taking two human beings, counting the number of electrons in them, and finding that they’re identical to within one el
by idlewords 12y ago
"one part in 10^24, which is kind of like taking two human beings, counting the number of electrons in them, and finding that they’re identical to within one electron"
I hate to be pedantic... wait, I LOVE to be pedantic.
If you consider a human being to be a 50kg bag of water, that's 2750 moles of water, or ~1.7 * 10^27 molecules. Each molecule has ten electrons, so this factoid is off by about four orders of magnitude. More if the person had a big bowl of electrons for breakfast that day.
- sarreph 12y agoI'm not sure a 'bowl of electrons' would be that great an example either ;) (density, etc)... Just being pedantic!