Now I Never Knew That

[cliveb]

What is was thinking…except as trees come and go by the millisecond counting them would be tricky…likewise, I suppose, stars - and as the universe expands there’s room for lots more.

You must be the last person alive believing in Fred Hoyle's proposal of continuous creation. Even he admitted it was wrong decades ago.

He said in 'our galaxy' not in the universe.

Number of stars in the observable universe is probably around the 1000 trillion mark. We know the universe is almost certainly way way bigger than that, but the jury's still out on whether it might be infinite.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Found out only last week that the largest city by population in the world is Jakarta.
According to the UN.

Java is similar land area to England.
And if the UK was as densely populated as Java, then we would be 295 million.

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Number of stars in the observable universe is probably around the 1000 trillion mark. We know the universe is almost certainly way way bigger than that, but the jury's still out on whether it might be infinite.

And as someone said, somewhere,
“If it’s just us, it’s an awful waste of space.”

 

[Swinglowandslow]

Can that be true?
Are there not an infinite number of whilst there are a finite number of

Can you have an infinite number of………….anything?

Contradiction of terms?

 

[Voyager EMH]

Can you have an infinite number of………….anything?

Contradiction of terms?

Yes.
Arguements.