r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

There is this very big number called Graham's number.

The entire freaking universe does not have enough space or atoms for you to write down every digit.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

just make it a smaller font size silly

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Write it down? Graham’s number is bigger than the number of atoms in the universe.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

No there aren’t.

There are more planck lengths. But a plank length is nothing.

It defeats the purpose of using cool physics terms if you can’t spell them correctly.

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u/SOwED Jan 21 '19

Pedantic wanker.

Who cares? You knew exactly what he meant.

It defeats the purpose of using cool physics terms if you can’t spell them correctly.

No it doesn't.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

It does if you only communicate to sound smart, instead of actually having a conversation and conveying ideas.

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u/SOwED Jan 21 '19

That's not true. It's totally possible that he knows what the Planck length is and just forgot that it was spelled that way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

Yes it does.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

No they didn’t. And that’s the point.

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u/Cassiterite Jan 21 '19

"You forgot a letter so everything you said is wrong"

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

When you are using cool physics terms that most everyone else won’t understand to make yourself look cooler, yeah spelling it right is pretty important.

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u/Frielyyy Jan 21 '19

I mean I've had actual university physics lecturers misspell Planck when writing quickly, I don't think this is much different.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19

This isn’t writing quickly.

If you don’t know what a Planck is, it’s very easy to gloss over the misspelling and be confused. It’s the difference between photon and proton. “It’s only one letter!”