Do you think there are more grains of sand on Earth or Stars in the universe?

Question

Grains of Sand > Stars in the Universe, or
Stars in the Universe > Grains of Sand?

Answer 1

I think that based on what we know thanks to our founding scientists such as Einstein, Asimov and Hawking, space is infinite. However, we also know that if the big bang is correct, there was a limited amount of material that made up everything we see and find in space. With that said, (*A star is a massive, compact body of plasma in outer space that is currently producing or has produced energy through nuclear fusion.) and since there was a limited amount of material to start with and only a miniscule amount of that was turned into what we know as stars, there are not all together too many stars out there. Otherwise the night would be lit up like a christmas tree.

If you calculate that Sand *(being a naturally occurring, finely divided rock, comprising particles or granules ranging in size from 0.0625 (or 1/16) to 2 millimeters.), is so common that it is natural to see it along rivers, oceans, lakes, in peoples back yards, all of florida, in my shoe after a hike, etc, and you figgure the amount of grains that will fit in my open palm is more than the amount of stars we can see with our most powerful telescopes than I say we have far many more grains of sand on the earth than there are stars in the heavens.

Now planets and other heavenly bodies will surely far out number grains of sand but stars in particular I dont believe to come close.

Answer 2

Much more stars rouch estimates are for 2000 billion billion grains of sand on Earth and 50,000 billion billion so the stars out do the sand by a factor of 25

Answer 3

There is an infinite number of stars, but only a certain number of grains of sand.

Answer 4

More stars than grains of sand .... because the number of sand grains in principle is limited .... whereas the number of stars is de facto unlimited (light has a limited speed .... so every day we are reached by "new" light coming from the horizon of galaxies; so every day come up new galaxies from behind horizon).

Answer 5

Well i read in a national geographic magazine that if you got a whole hand full of sand in your hand and counted ALL the grains there would still be far more stars.

Answer 6

well i heard that there were more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth...

Answer 7

tom is a Dee Dee Dee.


Probably more Stars since space is infinite and there is a specific number of sand grains in the world (would suck counting em all though)

Answer 8

The universe is infinite the earth is limited. I'd say stars.

Answer 9

what if the grains of sand are actually differnt earths?

Answer 10

More stars, we are not even a spec to the amount of material that is in the infinity.