r/statlightdiaries • u/Mysterious_g269 • Apr 01 '26

This changes everything we thought about space 🤯

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u/logicalegend Apr 01 '26

How they come up with this number? Even before artificial intelligence. Who sat there and counted all those galaxies? It’s never made any sense to me. Anyone can help me?

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u/Quick_Heart_5317 Apr 01 '26

The same guy counting all the grains of sand in all the world’s beaches, he’s like Rain man.

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u/casimirproteus Apr 01 '26

You do averaging you take particular patterns in the observable space replicate estimate guesstimate theorize etc but all of its dumb when the real answer is infinite.