My collection

Take a look at the sand
I’ve collected so far,
and help me by sending
some of your sand.

Let’s take a look at the
avarage grain of sand;
what does it look like
and how did it get there?

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Renée Janssen

Even if you’re not a
collector of sand, you
can contribute to my
sandcollection by
sending me sand from
your place of
residence.

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Let’s take a look at the
avarage grain of sand;
what does it look like
and how did it get there?

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In one grain of sand there is enough atoms, to encode enough data to store all of human races
written and printed knowledge.

To describe the exact atomic structure of a single grain of sand would require a vast library, to describe
the laws which govern the structure of all grains of sand requires a pamphlet.

If you pick up one grain of sand, you move the entire earth at the same time.

If the sun was a grain of sand,the stars in our galaxy would fill an Olymic-sized swimming pool. If our
galaxy were a grain of sand, the galaxies would fill several Olymic-sized swimming pools.

The extensiveness of visible matter in the universe; One grain of sand in a cube of 32x32x32 kilometres
(20x20x20 miles)

The mass of a white dwarf (an astronomical object which is produced when a low to medium mass star
dies); a grain of sand with the mass of a skyscraper.

If one is prepared to admit that ten thousand grains of sand make a heap, then one can argue that one
grain of sand does, since the removal of any one grain of sand cannot make the difference.




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