I proved 1.3 million Earths DON'T fit inside the Sun!

They say you can fit 1.3 million Earths in the Sun... but according to sphere packing math, my own Python code, a scale model; that can't be true. Let's find out how many Earth's actually fit in the Sun.
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TIME CODES
00:00 Cold Open
00:41 Reality
01:24 Sphere Packing
02:10 Cannonball Problem
05:09 Unit Cell
07:11 Sphere Packing in Spheres
09:21 Python Code
10:58 Scale Model
13:11 Calculation
15:07 Summary
16:13 Outro
16:34 Featured Comments