Is it true that the number 'googleplex' is more than all the atoms in the known universe?

Answer 1

One googol is greater than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, which has been variously estimated from 10^79 up to 10^81. Since a googolplex is one followed by a googol zeroes (10^10^100), it would not be possible to write down or store a googolplex in decimal notation, even if all the matter in the known universe were converted into paper and ink or disk drives.

Answer 2

I think a Google would be about the number of atoms you could pack into the universe, which is probably 10^20 times the number of atoms actually in the universe.

So, in universal standards a Google is a conceptual number. However, a googleplex is beyond conceptualisation. You could then come up with a name for 10^googleplex, which is even more ridiculous.

Answer 3

Absolutely. In fact, a googolplex has a much, much smaller cousin called a "googol" (not to be confused with "google"), which is also greater than the number of atoms in the universe.

The number of atoms in the universe is estimated at about 10^80. That's a "1" with 80 zeros after it.

A googol is 10^100. That a "1" with a hundred zeros after it. That makes a googol about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 times as large as as the number of atoms in the universe.

But that number is NOTHING compared to a googolPLEX. A googolplex is a "1" with a GOOGOL zeros after it.

Stop and think about that. A googolplex is such a big number that you cannot even write it down! You can write down the "1" and then write down a million zeros if you've got the strength; and then you could program a machine to keep writing billions of more zeros: but that would only scratch the surface: The fact is, there is not enough ink in the universe to write down all the zeros in a googolplex.

Answer 4

they say the no. of different chess games that can be played is greater than the total no. of atoms in the known universe but less than a googleplex.

but some people believe that the universe is infinite and much beyond its known to human part and so the no. of atoms is also infinite, which a googleplex is definitely not.

some others believe that the matter and antimatter in the universe will cancel each other out and thus the total no. of atoms in the universe will cancel out to be zero, which is obviously smaller than a googleplex.

Answer 5

Yes. Not only that, but there aren't even a googol (a much smaller number) atoms in the known universe.

Answer 6

Yes. Googol (note sp.) is 1 followed by 100 zeros, and even a 'mere' googol is greater than all the particles (not just atoms, but their separate components!) in the observable universe. [There may be more particles in the whole universe, but since it's ~13 billion years old, we can only observe stuff within a sphere of 13 billion light-years.]
A googolplex is 1 followed by a _googol_ of zeros, and could not be written, since it has more zeros than particles in the observable universe.
Of course, it still not 'infinity'...

Answer 7

I can't remember,i heard Carl Sagan say once.