I dont think there a true awnser to this ?
2007-07-26 14:38:29 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I wish I could remember where I saw this, but scientists used a ratio formula and discovered that it's roughly equal.
2007-07-26 14:46:42 · answer #1 · answered by Jason B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not yet. The universe is infinite, and while sand is being created more and more by water eroding rocks, the earth hasn't been around long enough. The universe has been around longer than anything (naturally) and is also expanding at nearly the speed of light, much more quickly than new sand is being formed. However, according to some theories, the universe will someday stop expanding, so stars will stop forming. If earth is still around then, then the sand might be able to catch up or pass the stars. :)
2007-07-26 17:24:57 · answer #2 · answered by Echo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not learn it as specks of sand on the earth.
There are over 200 billion stars in our galaxy and that is an average for each galaxy and there are over 200 billion galaxies in the known universe.
Therefore, there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand in all the beaches in the world.
And finally the number of grains of sand are fixed, and if the universe in infinite and without a beginning or boundary, the number of stars could very well be infinite.
2007-07-26 14:48:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stars
2007-07-26 14:48:18 · answer #4 · answered by Orionsend 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too...
First of all, I have no idea how many grains of sand there are on the Earth. Second, I have no idea how many stars there are in the Universe. I do know that there are more than 200 Billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and that there are thousands and thousands of other galaxies, each of which may have billions of stars in them. so the total number of stars is very, very large, but I cannot begin to tell you how large.
Add to that the concept that almost all of those stars might have a solar system of its own with from one to ten (or more) planets and their associated moons, and you have a huge, huge number of objects out there in space.
2007-07-26 15:01:19 · answer #5 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hm, tough one. But I have to say that the number of grains of sand on Earth is finite (though it would take a really long time to count that many grains of sand). I think the universe is infinite, but even if it's not, there has to be more beyond it. So I have to say there are more stars.
2007-07-26 14:47:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The number of grains of sand on Earth is huge, but not infinite - its a finite number. We just don't have the resources to count them all.
But scientists believe that the total number of galaxies (the ones we can see and the ones we can't) in the universe is infinite, so the number of stars is also infinite.
Infinite is greater than finite.
2007-07-26 15:04:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One trillon galaxies containing each contain a trillion stars.
asuume a grain of sand is 1 billionth of one meter cube And the whole earth is a total volume of sand. the volume of the earth is 1x10^21 meter cube. The total volume of the earth would contain 1x10^30 grains of sand. The whole universe would contain One trillion trillion Stars.(1x10^18 stars)However the sand on the beaches is only a small percentage of the volume of the earth.
2007-07-26 15:10:14 · answer #8 · answered by goring 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THERE IS AND THE ANSWER IS STARS IN THE UNIVERSE
2007-07-26 14:46:48 · answer #9 · answered by papito12197 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, there are more stars.
2007-07-26 17:39:53 · answer #10 · answered by NJGuy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋