Sir,-A billion (1,000,000,000,000) . is incomprehensible to most people. Bondi and Gold (according to The Listener of July 6) worked out that "if one atom of hydrogen was added to each quart of space every billion years the consequent stretching of space would cause the galaxies to recede at a speed agreeing with the rate of astronomical observations." The meaning of this would ‘be easier to grasp had they said "if about four atoms of hydrogen were: added to each cubic mile of space each year. . ."
W. B.
B.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 5
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