simple calculations will show that if the universe is indeed round, then its circumference is ...

8.1775656772942317997182607266765e+32 microns. give or take a few.

and since you all probably think I am bullshitting...



OK, according to GOGS67, the universe is 13.7 Billion Years Old! (13,700,000,000)

And we know that the speed of Light is about 300,000 kilometers per second, and

if we believe the big bang theory, which says that the universe began as an infinitisamally small point, and surrounding it was nothing, not even empty space,

Then we do a few calculations to determine the circumference of the universe.

Light travels at the speed of 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers per year

now we will make a bit of a leap here and say that the universe is expanding at the speed of light so

if we multiply the speed of light in kilometers/year by the age of the universe in years. The years cancel each other out and we get


9,500,000,000,000 x 13,700,000,000 = 130,150,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilometers, this is the radius of our circular (spherical actually) universe.

now, primary school math tells us that the circumference of a circle is 2 x pi x r, where r is the radius. Also, pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795

so...

2 x 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 x 130,150,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826.07266752

This last number is the circumference of the universe, in kilometers.

OK. 1 meter is 1/1,000 of a kilometer, and 1 micron is 1/1,000,000 of a meter.

So 1 km = 1000 x 1,000,000 = 1,000,000,000 1 billion microns.

almost there.

817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826.07266752 x 1,000,000,000 = 8.1775656772942317997182607266765e+32

This is the same as 817,756,567,729,423,179,971,826,072,667,650 microns

There you go. The circunference of the universe on the date that GOG67 13.7 billion year "measurement" was made.


GOGS, I have a coolclick trivia question for you. According to these calculations, what will be the volume of the universe, in cubic microns, the next time Scotland wins the World Cup?