Paleontologist wrote:
There is a popular statement about the Universe containing more stars than all the grains of sand on Earth. This is true. There are between 10 and 200 sextillion (sextillion is 21 zeros trailing) stars. There are between 2.5and 10 sextillion grains of sand on earth.. I counted
How large is 10 sextillion atoms, relatively?
Depends on which type of atom. Some are small, some are yuge.
And it depends on whether you're imagining hypothetically packing the atoms tight with no space between them. Depending on the type of atom chosen, that could be a super-dense lump that doesn't exist in nature. Or whether the atoms are allowed to comingle as they do in nature. In which case, in what state - gas, liquid, solid or Bose-Einstein condensate, and at what pressure, temperature, etc.?