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What was the date 46 days ago?

As today is November 21, the date 46 days ago would have been October 6.


How many seconds are in 46 years?

1,451,618,596 seconds in 46 years.


What do astronomers mean when they use the term observable universe?

That portion of the universe from which light from distant objects can reach us which has been traveling since it was possible for light to travel through the universe (about 380,000 years after the Big Bang) This is a sphere centered on Earth extending 46.6 billion light years in all directions. That sphere gets slightly bigger every day. Note also that even though the universe is 13.798 billion years old the observable universe is larger becuase the universe has been expanding during that 13.798 billion years.


How many quarks in observable universe?

We as humans currently do not know for sure what the exact size of the universe is due to technological limitations, and the universe is likely infinite in space. However, we do know how far we can see into the universe. From our vantage point on Earth, we can observe objects up to about 46 billion light years away, proving that the universe is in fact quite large! As mentioned above we do not know really how big the Universe is. However, in recent years, using methods not even conceived of until recently, it is fairly certain that the time since the Big Bang which is the beginning of the Universe as we know it is very close to 13.7 billion years. This has come from the WMAP satellite which measured the Microwave Background Radiation which is the remnant of the original energy release from that incredible explosive beginning of the Universe. Now that would normally mean that the Universe should not be more then 13.7 billion light years in any direction. This seems to be what we are seeing when we look out into the very limits of the Universe using our best telescopes in space and on the ground. There is a possibility that the Universe could be much bigger then that as the Big Bang theory requires a brief period of "Inflation" were the expanding space of the Universe had to travel much faster then the speed of light briefly in order to make all the observed consequences of the Big Bang theory come to pass. This could expand the whole Universe well beyond the limits of the time involved. So far this has not proven to be the case. Yet space can expand faster then the speed of light. Remember travel in space is managed by the "Higgs Field" which limits travel to the speed of light. Whereas space itself can expand faster then the speed of light as there is no restriction in how fast space itself can expand, it just requires an enormous amount of energy which was available for only a short time immediately after the Big Bang occurred. That means within quintillionth's of a second.


What is the second month in a Julian calendar?

The Julian calendar was introduced in 46 BC and is divided into 12 months with a leap day every four years. The second month was Februarius.

Related questions

How many 100 years are there in 4.6 billion years?

4.6 billion/100 = 4.6*109/102 = 4.6*107 = 46*106 or 46 million.


How long ago was April 1972?

As of April 2018, it is 46 years ago.


How many years ago was the first Super Bowl?

The first super bowl was 46 years ago


What is the furthest you can be from Mars?

At furthest reach of the Universe about 46 billion light years away.


What is 46 times 3.2 billion?

147.2 billion.


What is 46 billion divided by 31.1 million?

1.4791


The longest distance light can travel since the beginning of the universe is known?

Well, it's complicated.The universe is about 13.8 billion years old. In that time, in a vacuum (and while interstellar and even intergalactic space isn't a perfect vacuum, for these purposes it's close enough), light could have travelled 13.8 billion light-years. That's pretty straightforward.Where it becomes non-straightforward is in determining the radius of the observable universe. If there's only been time for light to go 13.8 billion light-years, then the edge of the observable universe should be 13.8 billion light-years away, right?Wrong.Because the universe is expanding, light that started on its way 13.8 billion years ago got a certain percentage of its traveling done when the universe was smaller. It turns out that the earliest thing we can see is the surface of last scattering or the cosmic microwave background radiation (we can't see past that because it's effectively opaque), which is currently about 46 billion light years away. (The theoretically observable universe is actually slightly larger than that, since the decoupling event when the universe became non-opaque happened when the universe was already about 380,000 years old).So, while light can only possibly have gone 13.8 billion light years, light that started on its way to us 13.8 billion light years ago and is reaching us now came from objects that are "now" about 46 billion light years away.


How many states were in the US 100 years ago?

the population of the world was around 3,957,345,210


How big is the univearse?

The observable Universe has a radius of about 46 billion light-years; that would be a diameter of 92 billion light-years. The entire Universe is likely much bigger, but it isn't know how much bigger.


What is 3.2 billion divided by 46?

0.0696


What is 6 trillion times 7.7 billion?

~46 billion trillion.


One billion seconds is equal to how many years?

Check your math and your answer....one billion divided by 31,536000 = 31.7 years, not 31 thousand years. It is actually 31 years, 259 days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 seconds 1 Billion seconds equal 1 billion divided by the number of seconds in a year (31,536,000) equals 31,709.79 years. So just about 32 thousand years