• Question: is there more atoms than humans in the world

    Asked by sinnita to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 21 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Ben Still

      Ben Still answered on 21 Nov 2011:

      Yes! We are made up of billions of them ourselves and so every one of the 7 billion plus humans on Earth are themselves made of billions of atoms.

    • Photo: Peter Williams

      Peter Williams answered on 21 Nov 2011:

      many orders of magnitude more. there are about 10^50 atoms in the world (1 with 50 zeros after it).

    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 21 Nov 2011:

      Yep, check out the Atoms to Universe zoom out movie

    • Photo: Katharine Schofield

      Katharine Schofield answered on 21 Nov 2011:

      there surely are. in a teaspoonful of water there’s about a hundred thousand million million million (100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)….ish.

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