Eddington on Protons

Famed astronomer & mathematician Sir Arthur Eddington:

I believe there are 15, 747, 724, 136, 275, 002, 577, 605, 653, 961, 181, 555, 468, 044, 717, 914, 527, 116, 709, 366, 231, 425, 076, 185, 631, 031, 296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

[Quoted in The Sun: A Biography, by David Whitehouse (Wiley, Chichester, 2004) p. 170.]

Posted on May 2, 2005 at 17.27 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book, Raised Eyebrows Dept.

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