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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the ancient tradition. |
0:12.6 | A Wonk Media production. |
0:15.0 | Music provided by Joseph McDade. |
0:19.0 | Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan. |
0:29.1 | Welcome to the ancient tradition. I'm your host, Jack Logan. Glad to have all of you listening in. |
0:37.7 | Before I jump into today's episode, I want to let you know that you can listen to the second half of the book of Joseph and Azanath. |
0:44.9 | It's available on our sister podcast, The Ancient Tradition Audio Rit. |
0:50.6 | Yesterday I was getting ready to head up to campus to teach a class, and it suddenly occurred to me |
0:55.0 | that I made an error in something that I said in episode number 26, a cosmic kingdom. |
1:01.8 | Towards the end of that episode, I said that according to estimates by astronomers, |
1:06.2 | that there are some four trillion planets in the known universe. |
1:12.4 | But what I meant to say was that according to estimates by astronomers, there could be as many as four trillion planets in our galaxy, in the |
1:18.8 | Milky Way galaxy, not in the known universe. That's a big, big difference. I think God was pricking my |
1:26.3 | mind being like, hey, you're low ball in it there. |
1:28.8 | So according to current estimates, astronomers estimate that there are between 100 to 400 billion |
1:35.6 | stars in the Milky Way galaxy. And they estimate that there are somewhere between 2 and 25 times |
1:43.1 | as many planets as there are stars. So if we take the middle |
1:47.1 | estimate of around 250 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and we times that by four, which is |
1:55.0 | kind of a conservative estimate, which represents the average of four planets per star, we'd estimate that there are around 1 trillion planets in the Milky Way galaxy. |
2:06.1 | But of course, there could be trillions and trillions more. |
2:09.0 | Now, if we take an estimate of 1 trillion planets in each galaxy, |
2:13.1 | and we times that by the number of estimated galaxies in the known universe, which astronomers now place |
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