How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
(This would be a standard pin and a standard angel.)
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Was never a serious debated issue, it was a joke about how hair-splitting monks tend to be.
In any case assuming a pin is about 2mm and the plank length (smallest size anything can be in our universe) 1.616229e-35 gives us 1.237e33 which is a lot of angels.
engineer_in_nj
Level 6
Mar 20, 2018
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That would be the maximum number, I concede.
200 standard angels. 241 compact angels. 308 subcompact angels. If you resort to luxury angels, the number drops to just 84.
There is a company working on miniaturized angels, but it is difficult technology and it may be a couple a millennia or more.
evidentialist
Level 8
Mar 20, 2018
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@atheist -- The lab hasn't gotten around to measuring them. Something about being politically correct and profiling -- or something like that.
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