How Many Things Are There?

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for help with this journey.

Human biomass volume: http://eesmyal.com/2012/02/human-cube/

spit facts: http://www.livescience.com/32208-how-...

LEGOs: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/mo...

sand calculation: http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/jsand....

sun in different wavelengths gif: http://imgur.com/gallery/H4IhGCg

Sun image: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sun...

totally neat minutephysics video on the observable universe:    • How Big is the Universe?  

AWESOME and relevant numberphile video:    • Googol and Googolplex - Numberphile  

Does MATH exist? PBS Idea Channel VIDEO:    • Is Math a Feature of the Universe or ...  

Our universe by the numbers: http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/n...

Galaxy visuals: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com...

reddit thread on reductionist counts:   / to_nonreductionists_how_many_things_are_there  

How big is the Universe:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithaba...
[PDF] http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~zirbel/a...
http://physics.stackexchange.com/ques...
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/f...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/ph...

particles in the universe: http://physics.stackexchange.com/ques...

Possible thought links:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings...
http://www.eubios.info/EJ132/ej132g.htm
http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/355/1/NCRG...

THINGING: http://philosophyisnotaluxury.com/201...

average sentence length: http://strainindex.wordpress.com/2008...

relavant wikipedia links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_(...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_l...
  / eli5_why_is_a_planck_length_the_smallest_p...  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremerma...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_o...)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_dea...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observab...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard...