A friend of mine asked this question : "Are there more stars in the universe then all the money in the world?"

Question

..........Let the debate begin :)

Answer 1

There are certainly more stars in the Universe than money in the world.

The Earth and everything on it are tiny, and miniscule, in comparison to the vastness of the Universe.

Consider, instead of money, all the grains of sand on every beach and desert that has ever been, on Earth; or all of the snowflakes that have ever fallen, since the dawn of time, here on this planet; or each of the individual cells of plankton that have ever existed in every ocean, here on Earth; or all of the pixels that have ever been displayed, on any screen, here on Earth...

A tiny fraction, compared to the vastness of the Universe.

Our planet is part of our Solar System, which is part of our Galaxy, which is part of a Local Group of Galaxies, which are merely part of Super-clusters of Galaxies.

The Universe is still expanding...

Money isn't the answer. Knowledge and understanding are.

"NEW YORK, June 9, 2005 — The world’s high-net-worth wealth grew strongly in 2004 for a second consecutive year, increasing 8.2 percent to $30.8 trillion, according to the 2005 World Wealth Report, released today by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini."

"The statitistics

1) The number of galaxies. An estimated 50 billion galaxies are visible with modern telescopes and the total number in the universe must surely exceed this number by a huge factor, but we will be conservative and simply double it. That's 100,000,000,000 galaxies in the universe.

2) The number of stars in an average galaxy. As many as hundreds of billions in each galaxy.

Lets call it just 100 billion.

That's 100,000,000,000 stars per galaxy.

3)The number of stars in the universe.

So the total number of stars in the universe is roughly 100 billion x 100 billion.

That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, 10 thousand, billion, billion. Properly known as 10 sextillion. And that's a very conservative estimate.

4) The number of stars that have planetary systems. The original extra-solar system planet hunting technology dictated that a star needed to be to close to us for a planet to be detected, usually by the stars 'wobble'. Better technology that allows us to measure the dimming of a stars brightness when a planet crosses its disk has now revolutionised planet hunting and new planets are being discovered at an ever increasing rate. So far (August 2003) around 100 have been discovered so we have very little data to work on for this estimate. Even so, most cosmologists believe that planetary formation around a star is quite common place. For the sake of argument let us say it's not and rate it at only one in a million and only one planet in each system, as we want a conservative estimate, not an exaggerated one. That calculation results in:

10,000,000,000,000,000 planets in the universe. Ten million, billion, as a conservative estimate."

Answer 2

Depends on the units of currency. If you put it in US pennies, sure. If you put it in some old unit of some currency that is no longer used, then maybe not. Another way to look at it is with 7x10^22 stars or so out there, if you divy that up amongst the ~7x10^9 people, then everyone one would have to have about 70 trillion pieces of this currency. That is gonna be a pretty useless denomination, but in principle some valueless unit of currency would have more than that many units when converted to the net total of global monetary wealth.

Answer 3

You can keep counting the amount of stars and u will never stop as none of us actually know the size of the universe, but if we all sat down in a nice little circle we could actually count all the money!! xoxox

Answer 4

A few years back a scientific study reported that the number of stars in the observable universe is about 70-sextillion (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/space/SpaceRepublish_910295.htm) I doubt there's that much money in the world.

Answer 5

yes the universe is unlimited and so the star number is countless. but the money in the world is not enough to compare with it on digital level.

Answer 6

no but there are more stars in the universe than grains of sands on the earth

Answer 7

It is said, There are more stars then grains of sand on the Earth.

Answer 8

more stars debate over

Answer 9

Of course! All the money in the world is not infinite.

Answer 10

Millions of times fold.