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Old 27-March-2008, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
I mean the entire visible Universe, adjusted for a common time.
So just the visible parts, then. As I said, "part of".


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Or divided by. I bet I do that more often than you!
Yes, that goof has been addressed.
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Does that matter?
Only if you want any accuracy in the answer.
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I don't have any idea what volume of iron meteoroids landed on the
Earth over the last 100 years, but I know that the density of all those
meteoroids is very close to 7.
Straw man. If no one actually told you the composition of objects, could you still say you knew their density without checking? That's closer to the situation we have with regards to the Universe.
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